attaching

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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. [1913 Webster]

The shoulder blade is . . . attached only to the muscles.— Paley.[1913 Webster]

A huge stone to which the cable was attached.— Macaulay.[1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

Incapable of attaching a sensible man.— Miss Austen.[1913 Webster]

God . . . by various ties attaches man to man.— Cowper.[1913 Webster]

4.To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; -- with to; as, to attach great importance to a particular circumstance. [1913 Webster]

Top this treasure a curse is attached.— Bayard Taylor.[1913 Webster]

5.To take, seize, or lay hold of. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

The earl marshal attached Gloucester for high treason.— Miss Yonge.[1913 Webster]

Attached column (Arch.), a column engaged in a wall, so that only a part of its circumference projects from it. [1913 Webster]

Syn: To affix; bind; tie; fasten; connect; conjoin; subjoin; annex; append; win; gain over; conciliate. [1913 Webster]