Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To bind; attach; unite by some tie.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To tie; to unite by some tie.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To tie; to unite by some tie.

Etymologies

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Latin alligatus ("tied, bound"), past participle of alligo ("I bind"), from ad + ligo ("I bind")

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