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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Bind \Bind\, v. t. [imp. Bound; p. p. Bound, formerly Bounden; p. pr. & vb. n. Binding.] [AS. bindan, perfect tense band, bundon, p. p. bunden; akin to D. & G. binden, Dan. binde, Sw. & Icel. binda, Goth. bindan, Skr. bandh (for bhandh) to bind, cf. Gr. ? (for ?) cable, and L. offendix. [root]90.] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] He bindeth the floods from overflowing. --Job xxviii. 11. [1913 Webster] Whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years. --Luke xiii. 16. [1913 Webster] 3. To cover, as with a bandage; to bandage or dress; -- sometimes with up; as, to bind up a wound. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 5. To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action; as, certain drugs bind the bowels. [1913 Webster] 6. To protect or strengthen by a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment. [1913 Webster] 7. To sew or fasten together, and inclose in a cover; as, to bind a book. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Who made our laws to bind us, not himself. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 9. (Law) (a) To bring (any one) under definite legal obligations; esp. under the obligation of a bond or covenant. --Abbott. (b) To place under legal obligation to serve; to indenture; as, to bind an apprentice; -- sometimes with out; as, bound out to service. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Syn: To fetter; tie; fasten; restrain; restrict; oblige. [1913 Webster]

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Binding \Bind"ing\, n. 1. The act or process of one who, or that which, binds. [1913 Webster] 2. 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. [1913 Webster] 3. pl. (Naut.) The transoms, knees, beams, keelson, and other chief timbers used for connecting and strengthening the parts of a vessel. [1913 Webster]

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Binding \Bind"ing\, a. That binds; obligatory. [1913 Webster] Binding beam (Arch.), the main timber in double flooring. Binding joist (Arch.), the secondary timber in double-framed flooring. [1913 Webster] Syn: Obligatory; restraining; restrictive; stringent; astringent; costive; styptic. [1913 Webster]

WordNet (r) 2.0 :
binding adj 1: executed with proper legal authority; "a binding contract" 2: hindering freedom of movement; "tight garments are uncomfortably binding" [syn: constricting] 3: causing constipation [syn: constipating] n 1: the capacity to attract and hold something 2: strip sewn over or along an edge for reinforcement or decoration 3: the act of applying a bandage [syn: dressing, bandaging] 4: the front and back covering of a book; "the book had a leather binding" [syn: book binding, cover, back]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
161 Moby Thesaurus words for "binding": Smyth sewing, absolute, adhesive, affixation, annexation, attachment, authoritative, backing, bandage, bandaging, beading, bibliopegy, binder, binder board, bond, book cloth, book cover, book jacket, bookbinding, bookcase, bordering, bordure, canonical, case, casemaking, casing-in, clasping, cogent, collating, collating mark, combinative, communicating, compulsory, conclusive, conjunctive, connecting, connectional, connective, consistent, copulative, cover, de rigueur, decisive, decretory, dictated, didactic, dust cover, dust jacket, edging, entailed, envelope, envelopment, fastener, fastening, fimbria, fimbriation, final, flounce, folding, footband, formulary, frill, frilling, fringe, furbelow, galloon, gathering, gift wrapping, girding, gluing-off, good, hard and fast, hard binding, hard-and-fast, headband, hem, hooking, imperative, imperious, imposed, inevitable, instructive, intercommunicating, involuntary, irrevocable, jacket, joining, just, knot, lashing, lawful, legal, legitimate, library binding, ligation, lining, lining-up, linking, list, logical, mandated, mandatory, mechanical binding, meeting, motif, must, necessary, niggerhead, obligatory, official, peremptory, perfect binding, plastic binding, preceptive, prescribed, prescript, prescriptive, regulation, required, rounding, rubric, ruffle, saddle stitching, self-consistent, selvage, sewing, side sewing, signature, skirting, slipcase, slipcover, smashing, soft binding, solid, sound, spiral binding, splice, stamping, standard, stapling, statutory, sticking, substantial, sufficient, tailband, tieing, tipping, trimming, ultimate, valance, valid, weighty, well-founded, well-grounded, welt, wire stitching, without appeal, wrap, wrapper, wrapping, zipping

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