Attach

imp. & p. p. Attached; p. pr. & vb. n. Attaching

1. 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.

   A huge stone to which the cable was attached.

2. To connect; to place so as to belong; to assign by authority; to appoint; as, an officer is attached to a certain regiment, company, or ship.
3. To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral influence; -- with to; as, attached to a friend; attaching others to us by wealth or flattery.

   Incapable of attaching a sensible man.

   God . . . by various ties attaches man to man.

4. To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; -- with to; as, to attach great importance to a particular circumstance.

   Top this treasure a curse is attached.

5. To take, seize, or lay hold of. [Obs.]
6. To take by legal authority: (a) To arrest by writ, and bring before a court, as to answer for a debt, or a contempt; -- applied to a taking of the person by a civil process; being now rarely used for the arrest of a criminal. (b) To seize or take (goods or real estate) by virtue of a writ 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.

1. To adhere; to be attached.

   The great interest which attaches to the mere knowledge of these facts cannot be doubted.

2. To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest; as, dower will attach.

1. An attachment. [Obs.]

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