Attack :: Attack (v. t.) To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault..

Attack :: Attack (v. t.) To assail with unfriendly speech or writing; to begin a controversy with; to attempt to overthrow or bring into disrepute, by criticism or satire; to censure; as, to attack a man, or his opinions, in a pamphlet..

Attack :: Attack (v. t.) To set to work upon, as upon a task or problem, or some object of labor or investigation..

Attack :: Attack (v. t.) To begin to affect; to begin to act upon, injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste..

Attack :: Attack (v. i.) To make an onset or attack.

Attack :: Attack (n.) The act of attacking, or falling on with force or violence; an onset; an assault; -- opposed to defense..

Attack :: Attack (n.) An assault upon one's feelings or reputation with unfriendly or bitter words.

Attack :: Attack (n.) A setting to work upon some task, etc..

Attack :: Attack (n.) An access of disease; a fit of sickness.

Attack :: Attack (n.) The beginning of corrosive, decomposing, or destructive action, by a chemical agent..

Attackable :: Attackable (a.) Capable of being attacked.

Attacked :: Attacked (imp. & p. p.) of Attac.

Attacker :: Attacker (n.) One who attacks.

Attacking :: Attacking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Attac.

Entackle :: Entackle (v. t.) To supply with tackle.

Fish-tackle :: Fish-tackle (n.) A tackle or purchase used to raise the flukes of the anchor up to the gunwale. The block used is called the fish-block.

Hackmatack :: Hackmatack (n.) The American larch (Larix Americana), a coniferous tree with slender deciduous leaves; also, its heavy, close-grained timber. Called also tamarack..

Hard-tack :: Hard-tack (n.) A name given by soldiers and sailors to a kind of hard biscuit or sea bread.

Haystack :: Haystack (n.) A stack or conical pile of hay in the open air.

Smokestack :: Smokestack (n.) A chimney; esp., a pipe serving as a chimney, as the pipe which carries off the smoke of a locomotive, the funnel of a steam vessel, etc..

Stack :: Staccato (a.) Expressed in a brief, pointed manner..

Stack :: Stack (a.) A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, usually of a nearly conical form, but sometimes rectangular or oblong, contracted at the top to a point or ridge, and sometimes covered with thatch..

Stack :: Stack (a.) A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity..

Stack :: Stack (a.) A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet.

Stack :: Stack (a.) A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof. Hence:.

Stack :: Stack (a.) Any single insulated and prominent structure, or upright pipe, which affords a conduit for smoke; as, the brick smokestack of a factory; the smokestack of a steam vessel..

Stack :: Stack (a.) A section of memory in a computer used for temporary storage of data, in which the last datum stored is the first retrieved..

Stack :: Stacking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stac.

Stack-guard :: Stacket (n.) A stockade.

Stackage :: Stack (n.) To lay in a conical or other pile; to make into a large pile; as, to stack hay, cornstalks, or grain; to stack or place wood..

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