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An attachment to a microscope, telescope, or other optical instrument, for making the image erect instead of inverted.

To alienate the affections or confidence of; to turn from attachment to enmity or indifference. I do not know, to this hour, what it is that has estranged him from me. Pope. He . . . had pretended to be estranged from the Whigs, and had promised to act as a spy upon them. Macaulay.

A finlike organ or attachment; a part of an object or product which protrudes like a fin, as:

ge of an iron beam; or for a guide, as the flange of a car wheel (see Car wheel.); or for attachment to another object, as the flange on the end of a pipe, steam cylinder, etc. Knight.

Free or lose from the usual attachment; as, the floating ribs in man and some other animals.

pt him a foreign man still; which so grieved him, That he ran mad and died. Shak. Foreign attachment (Law), a process by which the property of a foreign or absent debtor is attached for the satisfaction of a debt due from him to the plaintiff; an attachment of the goods, effects, or credits of a debtor in the hands of…

The state of being friends; friendly relation, or attachment, to a person, or between persons; affection arising from mutual esteem and good will; friendliness; amity; good will. There is little friendship in the world. Bacon. There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity. Rambler.…

An attachment for making gathers in the cloth.

A scarfing or endwise attachment of one timber to another. Cleft grafting (Hort.) a method of grafting in which the scion is placed in a cleft or slit in the stock or stump made by sawing off a branch, usually in such a manaer that its bark evenly joins that of the stock. -- Crown, or Rind, grafting, a method of graft…

ain of allowance, a slight indulgence or latitude a small allowance. -- Grain binder, an attachment to a harvester for binding the grain into sheaves. -- Grain colors, dyes made from the coccus or kermes in sect. -- Grain leather. (a) Dressed horse hides. (b) Goat, seal, and other skins blacked on the grain side for…

Any fixture or attachment designed to protect or secure against injury, soiling, or defacement, theft or loss; as:

alled because it is necessary to guess at the length to be carried in the boat making the attachment to a distant object.

The part of a lathe that holds the revolving spindle and its attachments; -- also called poppet head, the opposite corresponding part being called a tailstock.

An attachment to a sewing machine, for turning under the edge of a piece of fabric, preparatory to stitching it down.

The eye of a bean or other seed; the mark or scar at the point of attachment of an ovule or seed to its base or support; -- called also hile.

rivileges or exemptions upon owners of homesteads; esp., a law exempting a homestead from attachment or sale under execution for general debts. Such laws, with limitations as to the extent or value of the property, exist in most of the States. Called also homestead exemption law. (b) Also, a designation of an Act of Co…

Consisting in, or partaking of, an excessive attachment or reverence; as, an idolatrous veneration for antiquity.

Excessive attachment or veneration for anything; respect or love which borders on adoration. Shak.

me node with opposite or whorled leaves, but occupying a position between their places of attachment.

Inverted; having a position or mode of attachment the reverse of that which is usual.