ATTACHMENT

n.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

The act attaching, or state of being attached; close adherence or affection; fidelity; regard; anas, an attachment to a friend, or to a party.

2.
n.

That by which one thing is attached to another; connection; as, to cut the attachments of a muscle. The human mind . . . has exhausted its forces in the endeavor to rend the supernatural from its attachment to this history. I. Taylor.

3.
n.

Something attached; some adjunct attached to an instrument, machine, or other object; as, a sewing machine attachment (i. e., a device attached to a sewing machine to enable it to do special work, as tucking, etc.).

4.
n.

A seizure or taking into custody by virtue of a legal process.

5.
n.

The writ or percept commanding such seizure or taking.

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