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- English Word Atrophy Definition A wasting away from want of nourishment; diminution in bulk or slow emaciation of the body or of any part.
- English Word Atrophy Definition To cause to waste away or become abortive; to starve or weaken.
- English Word Atrophy Definition To waste away; to dwindle.
- English Word Atropia Definition Same as Atropine.
- English Word Atropine Definition A poisonous, white, crystallizable alkaloid, extracted from the Atropa belladonna, or deadly nightshade, and the Datura Stramonium, or thorn apple. It is remarkable for its power in dilating the pupil of the eye. Called also daturine.
- English Word Atropism Definition A condition of the system produced by long use of belladonna.
- English Word Atropous Definition Not inverted; orthotropous.
- English Word Atrous Definition Coal-black; very black.
- English Word Atrypa Definition A extinct genus of Branchiopoda, very common in Silurian limestones.
- English Word Attabal Definition See Atabal.
- English Word Attacca Definition Attack at once; -- a direction at the end of a movement to show that the next is to follow immediately, without any pause.
- English Word Attach Definition 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.
- English Word Attach Definition 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.
- English Word Attach Definition 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.
- English Word Attach Definition To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; -- with to; as, to attach great importance to a particular circumstance.
- English Word Attach Definition To take, seize, or lay hold of.
- English Word Attach Definition 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.
- English Word Attach Definition To adhere; to be attached.
- English Word Attach Definition To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest; as, dower will attach.
- English Word Attach Definition An attachment.