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n.
One who binds; as, a binder of sheaves; one whose trade is to bind; as, a binder of books.
n.
The act or process of one who, or that which, binds.
adv.
So as to 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.
v. t.
To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action; as, certain drugs bind the bowels.
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To cover, as with a bandage; to bandage or dress; -- sometimes with up; as, to bind up a wound.
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To sew or fasten together, and inclose in a cover; as, to bind a book.
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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.
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.
n.
That which binds or ties.
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.
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.
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.
v. i.
To contract; to grow hard or stiff; to cohere or stick together in a mass; as, clay binds by heat.
n.
The condition or property of being binding; obligatory quality.
a.
That binds; obligatory.
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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.
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.
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To protect or strengthen by a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.
v. i.
To exert a binding or restraining influence.
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