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

One attached to another person or thing, as a part of a suite or staff. Specifically: One attached to an embassy.

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

To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault. "Attack their lines." Dryden.

Capable of being attacked.

One who attacks.

Excessive or extended use of the b sound in speech, due to conversion of other sounds into it, as through inability to distinguish them from b, or because of difficulty in pronouncing them.

A binnacle. [Obs.]

Belonging to, or like, the family of plants of which the prickly pear is a common example.

Relating to, or having the properties of, a caustic curve formed by reflection. See Caustic, a. Nichol.

A figure by which one word is wrongly put for another, or by which a word is wrested from its true signification; as, "To take arms against a sea of troubles. " Shak. "Her voice was but the shadow of a sound." Young.

Belonging to, or in the manner of, a catachresis; wrested from its natural sense or form; forced; far-fatched. -- Cat`a*chres"tic*al*ly, adv. [A] catachrestical and improper way of speaking. Jer. Taylor.

A breaking asunder; disruption.

An extensive overflow or sweeping flood of water; a deluge.

Of or pertaining to a cataclysm.

One who believes that the most important geological phenomena have been produced by cataclysms.

A cave, grotto, or subterraneous place of large extent used for the burial of the dead; -- commonly in the plural.

That part of acoustics which treats of reflected sounds or echoes See Acoustics. Hutton.

secondary elevations due to two or more expansions of the artery in the same beat. -- Ca*tac"rotism (#), n.

. Another suborder (Zeuglodontia) is extinct. The Sirenia were formerly included in the Cetacea, but are now made a separate order.