Verb

(obsolete, legal) To arrest, seize.

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , I.xii:

Eftsoones the Gard, which on his state did wait, / Attacht that faitor false, and bound him strait

* 1610 , , by (William Shakespeare), act 3 scene 2

Old lord, I cannot blame thee, / Who am myself attach'd with weariness / To th' dulling of my spirits: sit down, and rest.

* Miss Yonge

The earl marshal attached Gloucester for high treason.

To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).

An officer is attached to a certain regiment, company, or ship.

* Paley

The shoulder blade is attached only to the muscles.

* Macaulay

a huge stone to which the cable was attached

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To adhere; to be attached.

* Brougham

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

To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.

Dower will attach .

(Cooley)

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 .

attached''' to a friend; '''attaching others to us by wealth or flattery

* Jane Austen

incapable of attaching a sensible man

* Cowper

God by various ties attaches man to man.

To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to .

to attach great importance to a particular circumstance

* Bayard Taylor

To this treasure a curse is attached .

(obsolete) To take, seize, or lay hold of.

(Shakespeare)

Verb

(es)

To extend; to stretch; to thrust out; to put forth, as a limb, a member, something held, or the like.

Hence, to deliver by stretching out a member, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another; to hand over.

To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something held by one, so as to touch, strike, grasp, etc.

To strike or touch with a missile.

Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut, as far as.

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To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent.

* Milton

Thy desire leads to no excess / That reaches blame.

To arrive at by effort of any kind; to attain to; to gain; to be advanced to.

* Cheyne

The best account of the appearances of nature which human penetration can reach , comes short of its reality.

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(obsolete) To understand; to comprehend.

* Beaumont and Fletcher

Do what, sir? I reach you not.

(obsolete) To overreach; to deceive.

(South)

To stretch out the hand.

To strain after something; to make efforts.

To extend in dimension, time etc.; to stretch out continuously ((past), (beyond), (above), (from) etc. something).

* 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 4:

The Thembu tribe reaches back for twenty generations to King Zwide.

(nautical) To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.