Bind
Bind ({not transcribed}) , transitive verb
[Anglo-Saxon bindan, perfect tense band, bundon, p. p. bunden; akin to Dutch & German binden, Danish binde, Swedish & Icelandic binda, Gothic bindan, Sanskrit bandh (for bhandh) to bind, compare Greek {not transcribed} (for {not transcribed}) cable, and Latin offendix. r90.]
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.
Figuratively: 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.
(a) (Law) To bring (any one) under definite legal obligations; esp. under the obligation of a bond or covenant.
(b)
(Law) To place under legal obligation to serve; to indenture; as, to bind an apprentice; -- sometimes with out; as, bound out to service. — Abbott
Collocations (3)
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.
Bind ({not transcribed}) , intransitive verb
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. — Mortimer
3.
To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.
4.
To exert a binding or restraining influence. — Locke
Bind , noun
1.
That which binds or ties.
2.
Any twining or climbing plant or stem, esp. a hop vine; a bine.
3.
(Metallurgy) Indurated clay, when much mixed with the oxide of iron. — Kirwan
4.
(Music) A ligature or tie for grouping notes.