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Attach \At*tach"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Attached}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Attaching}.] [OF. atachier, F. attacher, to tie or
   fasten: cf. Celt. tac, tach, nail, E. tack a small nail, tack
   to fasten. Cf. {Attack}, and see {Tack}.]
   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.                              --Paley.

            A huge stone to which the cable was attached.
                                                  --Macaulay.

   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. --Miss
                                                  Austen.

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

   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. --Bayard
                                                  Taylor.

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

   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.                          --Miss Yonge.

   {Attached column} (Arch.), a column engaged in a wall, so
      that only a part of its circumference projects from it.

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

Column \Col"umn\, n. [L. columna, fr. columen, culmen, fr.
   cellere (used only in comp.), akin to E. excel, and prob. to
   holm. See {Holm}, and cf. {Colonel}.]
   1. (Arch.) A kind of pillar; a cylindrical or polygonal
      support for a roof, ceiling, statue, etc., somewhat
      ornamented, and usually composed of base, shaft, and
      capital. See {Order}.

   2. Anything resembling, in form or position, a column in
      architecture; an upright body or mass; a shaft or obelisk;
      as, a column of air, of water, of mercury, etc.; the
      Column Vend[^o]me; the spinal column.

   3. (Mil.)
      (a) A body of troops formed in ranks, one behind the
          other; -- contradistinguished from {line}. Compare
          {Ploy}, and {Deploy}.
      (b) A small army.

   4. (Naut.) A number of ships so arranged as to follow one
      another in single or double file or in squadrons; -- in
      distinction from ``line'', where they are side by side.

   5. (Print.) A perpendicular set of lines, not extending
      across the page, and separated from other matter by a rule
      or blank space; as, a column in a newspaper.

   6. (Arith.) A perpendicular line of figures.

   7. (Bot.) The body formed by the union of the stamens in the
      Mallow family, or of the stamens and pistil in the
      orchids.

   {Attached column}. See under {Attach}, v. t.

   {Clustered column}. See under {Cluster}, v. t.

   {Column rule}, a thin strip of brass separating columns of
      type in the form, and making a line between them in
      printing.