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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or
attribute; to affix; -- with to; as, to attach great importance to a
particular circumstance. |
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To take, seize, or lay hold of. |
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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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To adhere; to be attached. |
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To come into legal operation in connection with
anything; to vest; as, dower will attach. |
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An attachment. |