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To separate, as what is tacked; to disjoin; to release. being untacked from honest cares. Barrow.

To unbitch; to unharness. [Colloq.] Tusser.

The posterior section of the body, behind the thorax, in insects, crustaceans, and other Arthropoda.

oard. Naut.: To fall aboard of, to strike a ship's side; to fall foul of. -- To haul the tacks aboard, to set the courses. -- To keep the land aboard, to hug the shore. -- To lay (a ship) aboard, to place one's own ship close alongside of (a ship) for fighting.

To a reserved position; half round; in the opposite direction; on the opposite tack; as, to face about; to turn one's self about. To bring about, to cause to take place; to accomplish. -- To come about, to occur; to take place. See under Come. -- To go about, To set about, to undertake; to arrange; to prepare. "Shall…

An onset, attack, or fit of disease. The first access looked like an apoplexy. Burnet.

A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case.

To unite; to attach; to incorporate. [Obs.] Milton.

Destitute of tentacles, as certain mollusks.

Tacit concurrence in the action of another. Wharton. p. 17

Resting satisfied or submissive; disposed tacitly to submit; assentive; as, an acquiescent policy.

A large division of Anthozoa, including those which have simple tentacles and do not form stony corals. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to all the Anthozoa, expert the Alcyonaria, whether forming corals or not.

peculiar larval form of Phoronis, a genus of marine worms, having a circle of ciliated tentacles.

Of a flower, having its parts inserted spirally on the receptacle.

Without claws on the feet (of crustaceous animals).

The quality or state of being addicted; attachment.

To hold, be attached, or devoted; to remain fixed, either by personal union or conformity of faith, principle, or opinion; as, men adhere to a party, a cause, a leader, a church.

The state of being fixed in attachment; fidelity; steady attachment; adhesion; as, adherence to a party or to opinions.

Attached as an attribute or circumstance.

The action of sticking; the state of being attached; intimate union; as the adhesion of glue, or of parts united by growth, cement, or the like.