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p-shaped with eight marginal lobes bearing clavate tentacles. An aboral sucker serves for attachment. The interior is divided into four large compartments. See Lucernarida.

The state or quality of being a churchman; attachment to the church.

To unite or be united closely in interest or affection; to adhere with strong attachment. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife. Gen. ii. 24. Cleave unto the Lord your God. Josh. xxiii. 8.

Adherence; attachment; devotion. [R.] A more tenacious cling to worldly respects. Milton.

A piece of apparatus used for reversing the direction of an electrical current; an attachment to certain electrical machines, by means of which alternating currents are made to be continuous or to have the same direction.

The theory, principles, or authority of constitutional government; attachment or adherene to a constitution or constitutional government. Carlyle.

Having no fixed residence; at home in any place; free from local attachments or prejudices; not provincial; liberal. In other countries taste is perphaps too exclusively national, in Germany it is certainly too cosmopolite. Sir W. Hamilton.

A tool, or a sewing-mashine attachment, for making lines or creases on leather or cloth, as guides to sew by.

oyster shells and other substances laid down on oyster grounds to furnish points for the attachment of the spawn of the oyster. [Also written cutch.]

An attachment to a millstone spindle for shaking the hoppe

A gaping or bursting open along a definite line of attachment or suture, without tearing, as in the opening of pods, or the bursting of capsules at maturity so as to emit seeds, etc.; also, the bursting open of follicles, as in the ovaries of animals, for the expulsion of their contents.

The state of being devoted; addiction; eager inclination; strong attachment love or affection; zeal; especially, feelings toward God appropriately expressed by acts of worship; devoutness. Genius animated by a fervent spirit of devotion. Macaulay.

An attachment to a clock by which the quarter hours are struck upon bells of different tones.

Remote from the point of attachment or origin; as, the distal end of a bone or muscle; -- opposed to proximal.

An attachment to a lathe, spindle, or face plate to turn a carrier.

ar of an animal; any prominence or projection on an object, -- usually one for support or attachment; a lug; a handle; as, the ears of a tub, a skillet, or dish. The ears of a boat are outside kneepieces near the bow. See Illust. of Bell.

Strong attachment to ecclesiastical usages, forms, etc.

With attachment; with interest; earnestly.

Formed, or deposited, by the action of wind, as dunes. Eolian attachment, Eolian harp. See Æolian.

Attachment to the doctrines of Epicurus; the principles or belief of Epicurus.