BPage 217
- English Word Bind Definition To protect or strengthen by a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.
- English Word Bind Definition To sew or fasten together, and inclose in a cover; as, to bind a book.
- English Word Bind Definition 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.
- English Word Bind Definition To bring (any one) under definite legal obligations; esp. under the obligation of a bond or covenant.
- English Word Bind Definition To place under legal obligation to serve; to indenture; as, to bind an apprentice; -- sometimes with out; as, bound out to service.
- English Word Bind Definition To tie; to confine by any ligature.
- English Word Bind Definition To contract; to grow hard or stiff; to cohere or stick together in a mass; as, clay binds by heat.
- English Word Bind Definition To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.
- English Word Bind Definition To exert a binding or restraining influence.
- English Word Bind Definition That which binds or ties.
- English Word Bind Definition Any twining or climbing plant or stem, esp. a hop vine; a bine.
- English Word Bind Definition Indurated clay, when much mixed with the oxide of iron.
- English Word Bind Definition A ligature or tie for grouping notes.
- English Word Binder Definition One who binds; as, a binder of sheaves; one whose trade is to bind; as, a binder of books.
- English Word Binder Definition Anything that binds, as a fillet, cord, rope, or band; a bandage; -- esp. the principal piece of timber intended to bind together any building.
- English Word Bindery Definition A place where books, or other articles, are bound; a bookbinder's establishment.
- English Word Bindheimite Definition An amorphous antimonate of lead, produced from the alteration of other ores, as from jamesonite.
- English Word Binding Definition of Bind
- English Word Binding Definition That binds; obligatory.
- English Word Binding Definition The act or process of one who, or that which, binds.