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

The act of reattaching; a second attachment.

The quality or state of being addicted; attachment.

The state of being fixed in attachment; fidelity; steady attachment; adhesion; as, adherence to a party or to opinions.

Adherence; steady or firm attachment; fidelity; as, to error, to a policy. His adhesion to the Tories was bounded by his approbation of their foreign policy. De Quincey.

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

or produced by, the wind; aërial. Viewless forms the æolian organ play. Campbell. Æolian attachment, a contrivance often attached to a pianoforte, which prolongs the vibrations, increases the

A settled good will; kind feeling; love; zealous or tender attachment; -- often in the pl. Formerly followed by to, but now more generally by for or towards; as, filial, social, or conjugal affections; to have an affection for or towards children. All his affections are set on his own country. Macaulay.…

The act of affixing, or the state of being affixed; attachment.

science as to music or painting; esp. one who cultivates any study or art, from taste or attachment, without pursuing it professionally.

Attachment to the United States.

Having the ovule inverted, but with the attachment near the middle of one side; half anatropous.

Attachment to England or English institutions.

A mania for, or an inordinate attachment to, English customs, institutions, etc.

to the oyster, so called from their unequal valves, of which the lower is perforated for attachment.

; repugnance; distaste. Inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments to others, are to be avoided. Washington.

f the thicker and denser of the deep fasciæ which cover, invest, and the terminations and attachments of, many muscles. They often differ from tendons only in being flat and thin. See Fascia.

or precept to hold the same to satisfy a judgment which may be rendered in the suit. See Attachment, 4. The earl marshal attached Gloucester for high treason. Miss Yonge. Attached column (Arch.), a column engaged in a wall, so that only a part of its circumference projects from it.

A favoring of, or attachment to, the Athenians.

The state of mind of a bigot; obstinate and unreasoning attachment of one's own belief and opinions, with narrow-minded intolerance of beliefs opposed to them.