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Bind   /baɪnd/   Listen
verb
Bind  v. t.  (past bound; past part. bound, formerly bounden; pres. part. binding)  
1.
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.
2.
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. "He bindeth the floods from overflowing." "Whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years."
3.
To cover, as with a bandage; to bandage or dress; sometimes with up; as, to bind up a wound.
4.
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.
5.
To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action; as, certain drugs bind the bowels.
6.
To protect or strengthen by a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.
7.
To sew or fasten together, and inclose in a cover; as, to bind a book.
8.
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. "Who made our laws to bind us, not himself."
9.
(Law)
(a)
To bring (any one) under definite legal obligations; esp. under the obligation of a bond or covenant.
(b)
To place under legal obligation to serve; to indenture; as, to bind an apprentice; sometimes with out; as, bound out to service.
To bind over, to put under bonds to do something, as to appear at court, to keep the peace, etc.
To bind to, to contract; as, to bind one's self to a wife.
To bind up in, to cause to be wholly engrossed with; to absorb in.
Synonyms: To fetter; tie; fasten; restrain; restrict; oblige.


Bind  v. i.  (past bound; past part. bound, formerly bounden; pres. part. binding)  
1.
To tie; to confine by any ligature. "They that reap must sheaf and bind."
2.
To contract; to grow hard or stiff; to cohere or stick together in a mass; as, clay binds by heat.
3.
To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.
4.
To exert a binding or restraining influence.


noun
Bind  n.  
1.
That which binds or ties.
2.
Any twining or climbing plant or stem, esp. a hop vine; a bine.
3.
(Metal.) Indurated clay, when much mixed with the oxide of iron.
4.
(Mus.) A ligature or tie for grouping notes.





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"Bind" Quotes from Famous Books



... be barbarous indeed," he continued, "to apply such a thing as this to that sweet, rosy mouth of yours, mademoiselle, as I am sure that you will admit—or to bind together those pretty, delicate, little wrists, upon which no worse fetters than diamond bracelets ...
— Captain Fracasse • Theophile Gautier
... the long staple textile substance of the body. It is to the organism what cotton is pretended to be to our Southern States. It pervades the whole animal fabric as areolar tissue, which is the universal packing and wrapping material. It forms the ligaments which bind the whole frame-work together. It furnishes the sinews, which are the channels of power. It enfolds every muscle. It wraps the brain in its hard, insensible folds, and the heart itself beats in a purse that is made ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)
... that old man Jones had vowed he would put them to fifteen before he got through. There were a million and a half of men in the country looking for work, a hundred thousand of them right in Chicago; and were the packers to let the union stewards march into their places and bind them to a contract that would lose them several thousand dollars a day for ...
— The Jungle • Upton Sinclair
... another dispatch of Halleck to Stanton, dated the 26th, and saying that his subordinates were ordered "to pay no regard to any truce, or orders of General Sherman suspending hostilities, on the ground that Sherman's agreements could bind his own command and no other." [Footnote: Id., p. 953.] This was upon receipt of a dispatch from Beauregard stating "that a new arrangement had been made with Sherman." [Footnote: Official Records, vol. xlvi. pt. iii. p. 953.] In the same dispatch Halleck suggested ...
— Military Reminiscences of the Civil War V2 • Jacob Dolson Cox
... unusual size and beauty, was to bind the Iroquois, the French, and their Indian allies together as one man. As he presented it, the orator led forth a Frenchman and an Algonquin from among his auditors, and, linking his arms with theirs, pressed them closely to his sides, in token of ...
— The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century • Francis Parkman


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