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  • 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.
  • English Word Binding Definition 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.
  • English Word Binding Definition The transoms, knees, beams, keelson, and other chief timbers used for connecting and strengthening the parts of a vessel.
  • English Word Bindingly Definition So as to bind.
  • English Word Bindingness Definition The condition or property of being binding; obligatory quality.
  • English Word Bindweed Definition 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.
  • English Word Bine Definition The winding or twining stem of a hop vine or other climbing plant.
  • English Word Binervate Definition Two-nerved; -- applied to leaves which have two longitudinal ribs or nerves.
  • English Word Binervate Definition Having only two nerves, as the wings of some insects.
  • English Word Bing Definition A heap or pile; as, a bing of wood.
  • English Word Biniodide Definition Same as Diiodide.