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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.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Bind" Quotes from Famous Books



... one little portion of her beauty, in the curve of an eyelash even, or the modelling of a shell-like ear, is justified to hold a light before my loveliness? Now, my waist! Perchance thou thinkest it too large, but of a truth it is not so; it is this golden snake that is too large, and doth not bind it as it should. It is a wide snake, and knoweth that it is ill to tie in the waist. But see, give me thy hands—so—now press them round me, and there, with but a little force, thy fingers ...
— She • H. Rider Haggard
... been anything but a faithful servant to the Derbys, and made a brave end. The place of his execution was Hango Hill, a bleak, bare stretch of land with the broad sea Under it. The soldiers wished to bind Christian. "Trouble not yourselves for me," he said, "for I that dare face death in whatever shape he comes, will not start at your fire and bullets." He pinned a piece of white paper on his breast, and said: "Hit this, and you do your own work and mine." Then he stretched ...
— The Little Manx Nation - 1891 • Hall Caine
... September gales, Of pirates upon the Spanish Main, And ships that never came back again, The chance and change of a sailor's life, Want and plenty, rest and strife, His roving fancy, like the wind, That nothing can stay and nothing can bind, And the magic charm of foreign lands, With shadows of palms, and shining sands, Where the tumbling surf, O'er the coral reefs of Madagascar, Washes the feet of the swarthy Lascar, As he lies alone and asleep on the turf. And the trembling maiden held her breath At the tales of that awful, pitiless ...
— Elson Grammer School Literature, Book Four. • William H. Elson and Christine Keck
... with a smoldering fire. "Johnstone Sahib will not leave Delhi. It is in the stars! He has too much here to leave. There are many old ties which bind. No, he will not go like a thief in the night." Hawke was surprised at the ...
— A Fascinating Traitor • Richard Henry Savage
... probable place of refuge, had sent soldiers in haste to bring him back to Rome, there to suffer the punishment decreed. In a minute afterwards a centurion entered the room, and, seeing Nero prostrate and bleeding, ran to his aid, saying that he would bind the ...
— Historic Tales, Volume 11 (of 15) - The Romance of Reality • Charles Morris


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