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Bind
BIND, v.t.
1. To tie together,or confine with a cord, or any thing that is flexible; to fasten as with a band, fillet or ligature.
2. To gird, inwrap or involve; to confine by a wrapper, cover or bandage; sometimes with up; as, to bind up a wound.
3. To confine or restrain, as with a chain, fetters or cord; as, bind him hand and foot.
4. To restrain in any manner.
He bindeth the floods from overflowing. Job 28.
5. To oblige by a promise, vow, stipulation, covenant, law, duty or any other moral tie; to engage.
If a man shall swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond. Num 30.
We are bound by the laws of kindness, of nature, of a state, etc.
6. To confirm or ratify.
Whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth, shall be bound in heaven. Mat 16.
7. To distress, trouble, or confine by infirmity.
Whom Satan hath bound these eighteen years. Luke 13.
8. To constrain by a powerful influence or persuasion.
I go bound in the spirit to Jerusalem. Acts 20.
9. To restrain the natural discharges of the bowels; to make costive; as, certain kinds of food bind the body or bowels.
10. To form a border; to fasten with a band, ribin, or any thing that strengthens the edges; as, to bind a garment or carpet.
11. To cover with leather or anything firm; to sew together and cover; as, to bind a book.
12. To cover or secure by a band; as, to bind a wheel with tire.
13. To oblige to serve, by contract; as, to bind an apprentice; often with out; as, to bind out a servant.
14. To make hard or firm; as, certain substances bind the earth.
To bind to is to contract; as, to bind one's self to a wife.
To bind over is to oblige by bond to appear at a court.
BIND, v.i. To contract; to grow hard or stiff; as, clay binds by heat.
1. To grow or become costive.
2. To be obligatory.
BIND, n. A stalk of hops, so called from its winding round a pole or tree, or being bound to it.
1. A bind of eels, is a quantity consisting of 10 strikes, each containing 25 eels, or 250 in the whole.
2. Among miners, indurated clay, when much mixed with the oxyd of iron.
bind appears in definitions for these words:
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About Acceptance Accepter Acceptor Adjure Adscititious Affy Allay Allegiance Alligate Alloy Antiquated Apophthegm Apprentice Article Astrict Astricting Astriction Astrictive Astrictory Astringe Astringency Astringent Astringing Asyndeton Attach Attachment Authority Bale Band Bandage Banding Bargain Bark-galled Bean-goose Bear-bind Beating Begird Begirded Beholden Bind Bind-weed Binder Binding Bond Bookbinder Bookbinding Bound Bounden Brace Bracer Brail Bundle Cable Caburns Captivate Cart-rope Cart-tire Chain Chaining Charge Circumligation Clamp Collar Colligate Colligating Colligation Commit Common Conclude Confine Congeal Conjure Conspirator Constrain Constraining Constrict Constricting Constringent Constringing Contract Convolvulus Coptic Cord Covenant Cynanche Deligation Diadem Disannulling District Due Edder Embale Enchain Enchaining Enfetter Engage Engaging Enring Ephod Exauctorate Exorcise Extort Fagot Faith Fascia Fasciation Fast Fastening Fetter Fettering Fillet Filmy Force Forcible Further Gag Garter Gird Girding Girdle Girth Green Guaranty Guard Guilt Halter Handfast Hold Hoop Improve Incapacity Indent Indenting Indenture Indissolubility Indissoluble Indissolvable Inknot Iron Keelson Key Keystone Lash Lashing League Leash Liege Ligament Ligamental Ligation Ligature Look Loose Mad Mancipate Mate Muzzle Nature Noose Novitiate Null Obligate Obligation Obligatory Oblige Obliging Obligor Obscene Overgird Pack Packing Pinion Plowman Positive Pre-engagement Prison Proclamation Promise Promissory Public Recovery Religion Roll Sacrament Sadden Sea-withwind Shackle Shackling Sheaf Signature Snarl Sponsor Stacking-band Stacking-belt Statute Stegnotic Stick Stipulate Strain Strap Strapping Strength Stringent Subligation Subscribe Supreme Surcingle Swaddle Swaddling Swathe Sweet Swig Term Tire Truss Trussing Twine Two-valved Tye Tying Unconditional Undergird Unengaged Universally Up Upbind Vanquish Vincture Vitiate Void Voidness Vow Wain-rope Wanty Wattle Winding Windy Wire Woolding Wrong
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