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To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like. The shoulder blade is . . . attached only to the muscles. Paley. A huge stone to which the cable was attached. Macaulay.

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 attach again.

The act of reattaching; a second attachment.

Not attached; not adhering; having no engagement; free.

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

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

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.

Propensity to form and maintain attachments to persons, and to promote social intercourse.

To attach; to affix. Alison.

To join or unite to; to lie contiguous to; to be in contact with; to attach; to append. Corrections . . . should be, as remarks, adjoined by way of note. Watts.

A process by which land is attached security or in satisfaction of a debt.

Pertaining to an adnoun; adjectival; attached to a noun. Gibbs. -- Ad*nom"i*nal*ly, adv.

Held to service as attached to the soil; -- said of feudal serfs.