| Bind |
v. t. |
To tie, or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to bind a prisoner. |
| Bind |
v. t. |
To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind; as, attraction binds the planets to the sun; frost binds the earth, or the streams. |
| Bind |
v. t. |
To cover, as with a bandage; to bandage or dress;
sometimes with up; as, to bind up a wound. |
| Bind |
v. t. |
To make fast ( a thing) about or upon something, as by tying; to encircle with something; as, to bind a belt about one; to bind a compress upon a part. |
| Bind |
v. t. |
To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action; as, certain drugs bind the bowels. |
| Bind |
v. t. |
To protect or strengthen by a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment. |
| Bind |
v. t. |
To sew or fasten together, and inclose in a cover; as, to bind a book. |
| Bind |
v. t. |
Fig.: To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other moral tie; as, to bind the conscience; to bind by kindness; bound by affection; commerce binds nations to each other. |
| Bind |
v. t. |
To bring (any one) under definite legal obligations; esp. under the obligation of a bond or covenant. |
| Bind |
v. t. |
To place under legal obligation to serve; to indenture; as, to bind an apprentice;
sometimes with out; as, bound out to service. |
| Bind |
v. i. |
To tie; to confine by any ligature. |
| Bind |
v. i. |
To contract; to grow hard or stiff; to cohere or stick together in a mass; as, clay binds by heat. |
| Bind |
v. i. |
To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction. |
| Bind |
v. i. |
To exert a binding or restraining influence. |
| Bind |
n. |
That which binds or ties. |
| Bind |
n. |
Any twining or climbing plant or stem, esp. a hop vine; a bine. |
| Bind |
n. |
Indurated clay, when much mixed with the oxide of iron. |
| Bind |
n. |
A ligature or tie for grouping notes. |
| Binder |
n. |
One who binds; as, a binder of sheaves; one whose trade is to bind; as, a binder of books. |
| Binder |
n. |
Anything that binds, as a fillet, cord, rope, or band; a bandage;
esp. the principal piece of timber intended to bind together any building. |
| Bindery |
n. |
A place where books, or other articles, are bound; a bookbinder's establishment. |
| Bindheimite |
n. |
An amorphous antimonate of lead, produced from the alteration of other ores, as from jamesonite. |
| Binding |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Bind |
| Binding |
a. |
That binds; obligatory. |
| Binding |
n. |
The act or process of one who, or that which, binds. |
| Binding |
n. |
Anything that binds; a bandage; the cover of a book, or the cover with the sewing, etc.; something that secures the edge of cloth from raveling. |
| Binding |
pl. |
The transoms, knees, beams, keelson, and other chief timbers used for connecting and strengthening the parts of a vessel. |
| Binding post |
|
A metallic post attached to electrical apparatus for convenience in making connections. |
| Binding screw |
|
A set screw used to bind parts together, esp. one for making a connection in an electrical circuit. |
| Bindingly |
adv. |
So as to bind. |
| Bindingness |
n. |
The condition or property of being binding; obligatory quality. |
| Bindweed |
n. |
A plant of the genus Convolvulus; as, greater bindweed (C. Sepium); lesser bindweed (C. arvensis); the white, the blue, the Syrian, bindweed. The black bryony, or Tamus, is called black bindweed, and the Smilax aspera, rough bindweed. |
