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Capable of being attached; esp., liable to be taken by writ or precept.

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

or vault. -- Back pressure. (Steam Engine) See under Pressure. -- Back rest, a guide attached to the slide rest of a lathe, and placed in contact with the work, to steady it in turning. -- Back slang, a kind of slang in which every word is written or pronounced backwards; as, nam for man. -- Back stairs, stairs in…

A board attached to the rim of a water wheel to prevent the water from running off the floats or paddies into the interior of the wheel. W. Nicholson.

o twelve feet long, and sometimes a foot wide, which in certain whales (Balænoidea) are attached side by side along the upper jaw, and form a fringelike sieve by which the food is retained in the mouth.

as or heated air, so as to rise and float in the atmosphere; especially, one with a car attached for aërial navigation.

A kind of flag attached to a spear or pike by a crosspiece, and used by a chief as his standard in battle. Hang out our banners on the outward walls. Shak.

dings. -- Barn swallow (Zoöl.), the common American swallow (Hirundo horreorum), which attaches its nest of mud to the beams and rafters of barns.

of electric waves. The original form consisted of an extremely fine platinum wire loop attached to terminals and inclosed in a small glass or silver bulb. In a later variety, called the liquid barretter, wire is replace by a column of liquid in a very fine capillary tube.

That extremity of a leaf, fruit, etc., at which it is attached to its support.

A building used by the Romans as a place of public meeting, with court rooms, etc., attached.

written out continuously, while the other parts of the harmony are indicated by figures attached to the bass; continued bass.

other. The distance between the flanks of a bastion is called the gorge. A lunette is a detached bastion. See Ravelin.

l, angry and violent, or negligent touching of another's person or clothes, or anything attached to his person or held by him.

A cupping glass to which are attached a scarificator and an exhausting syringe. Dunglison.

art of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached the oxen or horses that draw it.

In a balloon, the braced wooden ring attached to the suspension ropes at the bottom, functionally analogous to the keel of a ship.

A bell tower, usually attached to a church or other building, but sometimes separate; a campanile.

.), a closed chain or ring, consisting of six carbon atoms, each with one hydrogen atom attached, regarded as the type from which the aromatic compounds are derived. This ring formula is provisionally accepted as representing the probable constitution of the benzene molecule, C6H6, and as the type on which its derivati…

In the Ethiopic church, a small building attached to a church edifice, in which the bread for the eucharist is made. Audsley.