under fide. The flowers come out from between the leaves 
on (hort peduncles; they are white, and fhaped like thofe 
of deadly nightfhade, but fmaller. It flowers in July and 
Atmuft, Buf l'eldom ripens its fruit in England. The feeds 
were fent to Mr. Miller from Campeaciry. 
8 . Atropa procumbens, or wheel-flowered atropa: (lera 
procumbent, herbaceous; leaves twin, unequal, ovate, 
lYnooth ; flowers in umbels. Root annual. Stem grooved, 
much branched, three feet high. Native of Mexico. Cul- 
livated in the royal garden at Madrid, where it flowers 
and fruits in O&obcr. 
Propagation and Culture. -Mandrake is propagated by 
feeds, which lhou!d be Town upon a bed of light earth foon 
after’they are ripe, for, if they are kept until the fpring, 
they feldom fucceed well; but thofe which are fown in 
autumn will come up in the fpring, when they fliould be 
carefully cleared from weeds; and in very dry weather 
they mud be refrefhed with water, which will greatly pro- 
mote their growth. In this bed they fliould remain till 
the end of Augufl, when they muft be taken up very care- 
fully, an d tranfplanted into the places where they are to 
remain : the loi'l fliould be light and deep, for their roots 
run far down ; but, if the foil be wet, they are often rot¬ 
ted in winter, and, if it be too near gravel or chalk, they 
wiil make little progrefs: but, if the foil be good, and 
they are not diflurbed, the plants will grow to a large fize 
in a few years, and will produce great quantities of flowers 
and fruit. It has been affected by perfons of credit, that 
a root of mandrake will remain found above fifty years, 
and be as vigorous as a young plant; but they fliould ne¬ 
ver be removed after their roots have arrived to any con- 
fiderable fize, for it breaks their lower fibres, and fo flints 
the plants, as that, if they live, they will not recover their 
former flrength in two or three years. Thefe plants fliould 
have a warm fituation, otherwife in fevere winters they 
will be deftroyed. Deadly nightfhade may be propagated 
both by its roots and by feeds. It loves a fliady fituation, 
but on account of its deadly poifon is rarely admitted into 
gardens. It fliould by no means be fuflered to grow where 
children or common people refort, becaufe they are likely 
to be attra&ed by the fplendid black colour of the berries. 
If the feeds of the third fort be permitted to fcatter, the 
plants will come up the following fpring ; or, if the feeds 
be fown on a bed of rich earth in the fpring, the plants 
will rife eafily, and may be afterwards tranfplanted to the 
borders of the pleafure-garden, wheic they muft be al¬ 
lowed room; for, if the ground be good, the plants will 
grow very larg?. The reft may be propagated by feeds, 
which fliould be fown in the fpring on a hot-bed ; when 
they are fit to remove, they fliould be each put into a fe- 
parate fmall pot, filled with loamy earth, and (haded until 
they take root. The fourth and fixth may be placed with 
other hardy exotic plants m a flicltcfed fituation, and in 
October they muft be removed into the greenhoufe. The 
fifth, feventh, and eighth, muft be kept in the bark (love, 
to have them thrive well in this country. The feventh 
may be increafed by parting the roots in the fpring, 
A'TROPHY, /. [from » neg. and rottpu, to nourifh.j 
l.n medicine, a difeafe, wherein the body, or fame of its 
parts, does not receive the necefTary nutriment, but wades 
and decays incbffantly. vSee M epic ink. 
A'TROPOS, /. i. e. unchangeable or inexo¬ 
rable, of « priv, or without, and to turn,] In fabu¬ 
lous hiftory, the name of the third of the Pare®, or Fates, 
whofe bufinefs it was to cut the thread of life. She is re- 
prefented in a black veil, with a pair of feiffars in her hand, 
ATT A, /• [from » neg. and to leap. ] One who, 
by reafon of the tendernefs of his feet, touches the ground 
lightly and delicately. 
To ATTACH', v. a. iatiacher , Fr.] To arrefl ; to take 
or appVehend by commandment: 
Eftfoons the guards, whicli on his date did wait, 
Attach'd that traitor falfe, and bound him flr.ait. Spenfer. 
Sometimes with the particle of, but not in prefent ufe : 
ATT 
You, lord archbifliop, and you, lord Mowbray, 
Of capital treafon I attach yoli both. Shakefpeare „ 
To lay hold on, as by power. To win ; to gain over; t» 
enamour: 
Songs, garlands, flow’rs, 
And charming fymphonies, attach'd the heart 
Of Adam. Milton. 
To fix to one’s intereft.—The great and rich depend on 
thofe whom their power or their wealth attaches to them. 
Rogers. 
To Attach, in law, is to take or apprehend by com¬ 
mandment of a writ or precept. Lamb. Eiren. lib.i. c. 16. 
It differs from arrefl, in that he who arrefteth a man car- 
rieth him to a perfon of higher power to be forthwith dif- 
pofed of; but he that attaches keepeth the party attached, 
and prefents him in court at the day affigned ; as appears 
by the words of the writ. Another difference there is, 
that arrefl is only'upon the body of a man; whereas an 
attachment is oftentimes upon his goods. Kiteh. 279. A 
capias taketh hold of immoveable things, as lands or tene¬ 
ments, and properly belongs to real actions; but attach¬ 
ment hath place rather in perfonal actions. BraCl. lib. iv. 
Flcta, lib. v. c. 24. 
ATTACH I AMEN'TA BONO'RUM, in law, is a 
diftrefs taken upon goods or chattels, where a man is fued 
for perfonal eftate or debt, by the legal attachiators or bai¬ 
liffs, as fecuvity to anfwer an adtion. There is likewife 
attachiamenta dc fpinis & bofeo, a privilege granted to the 
officers of a foreft, to take to their own ufc, thorns, brufri, 
and wind-fall, within their precinfts. Rennet's Paroch. 
Antiq. p. 209. 
ATTACH'MENT, f. [attachment, Fr.] Adherence; 
fidelity.—The Jews are remarkable for an attachment to 
their own country. Addifon. —Attention ; regard.—The 
Romans burnt this laft fleet, which is another mark of their 
fmall attachment to the fea. Arbuthnot. 
Attachment, in law, is a procefs from a court of re¬ 
cord, awarded by the juftices at their diferetion, on a bare 
fuggeftion, or on their own knowledge; and is properly 
grantable in cafes of contempts, again!! which all courts 
of record, but more efpecially thofe of Wcftminfter-hall, 
and above all the court of B. R. may proceed in a fum- 
mavy manner. Leach's Hawk. P. C. ii. c. 22. The moil re¬ 
markable inftances of contempts feem reducible to the fol¬ 
lowing heads : 1. Contempts of the king’s writs. 2. Con¬ 
tempts in the face of a court. 3. Contemptuous words or 
writings concerning the court, 4. Contempts of the rules 
or awards of the court. 5. Abufe of the procefs of the 
court. 6. Forgeries of writs and other deceits tending to 
impofe on the court. All courts of record have a kind of 
diferetionary power over their own officers, and are to fee 
that no abufes be committed by them, which may bring 
difgrace on the courts themfelves; therefore if a (herin 
or other officer fliall be guilty of a corrupt practice in not 
ferving a writ; as, if he refufe to do it, unlefs paid an un- 
reafonabie gratuity from the plaintiff', or receive a bribe 
from the defendant, or give him notice to remove his per¬ 
fon or effects, in order to prevent the fcrvice of any writ; 
the court which awarded it may puhjffi fetch offences in 
fuch a manner as fhall feem proper by attachment. Dyer, 
•xiS. 2 Hawk.P-C. 22- But if there be no palpable cor¬ 
ruption, nor extraordinary circumftance of wilful negli¬ 
gence or obftinacy, the judgment whereof is to be left to 
the diferetion of the court, it teems not ufual to proceed 
in this manner ; but to leave the party to Ins ordinary re- 
medy agalnft the fheritf, either by a£lioa or by rule to re¬ 
turn the writ, or by an alias and plurits, which if he have 
no excufe for not executing, an attachnfent goes of courfe. 
Hob. 62, z6 4. Noy,ioi. P. N. B. 38. Finch, 237. 5 Mod. 
314., 
Attachment lies againft attornies for injuftice, and bafe 
dealing by their clients, in delaying fuits, See. as well as 
for contempts to the court. 7 Haw/t. c. 72, If affidavits to 
ground an attachment are full as to the charge j yet if the 
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