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