To bind, fasten, tie, or connect] to make fast or
join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or
the like.
To connect; to place so as to belong; to assign
by authority; to appoint; as, an officer is attached to a certain
regiment, company, or ship.
To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love
or self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral influence; -- with
to; as, attached to a friend; attaching others to us
by wealth or flattery.
To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or
attribute; to affix; -- with to; as, to attach great
importance to a particular circumstance.
To take, seize, or lay hold of.
To take by legal authority: (a)
To arrest by writ, and bring before a court, as to answer for a debt, or a
contempt; -- applied to a taking of the person by a civil process;
being now rarely used for the arrest of a criminal. (b) To
seize or take (goods or real estate) by virtue of a writ or precept to hold
the same to satisfy a judgment which may be rendered in the suit. See
Attachment, 4.
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