English English Dictionary

To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.

To exert a binding or restraining influence.

That which binds or ties.

Indurated clay, when much mixed with the oxide of iron.

Any twining or climbing plant or stem, esp. a hop vine; a bine.

One who binds; as, a binder of sheaves; one whose trade is to bind; as, a binder of books.

Anything that binds, as a fillet, cord, rope, or band; a bandage; -- esp. the principal piece of timber intended to bind together any building.

A place where books, or other articles, are bound; a bookbinder's establishment.

An amorphous antimonate of lead, produced from the alteration of other ores, as from jamesonite.

of Bind

That binds; obligatory.

The act or process of one who, or that which, binds.

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.

The transoms, knees, beams, keelson, and other chief timbers used for connecting and strengthening the parts of a vessel.

So as to bind.

The condition or property of being binding; obligatory quality.

A plant of the genus Convolvulus; as, greater bindweed (C. Sepium); lesser bindweed (C. arvensis); the white, the blue, the Syrian, bindweed. The black bryony, or Tamus, is called black bindweed, and the Smilax aspera, rough bindweed.

The winding or twining stem of a hop vine or other climbing plant.

Having only two nerves, as the wings of some insects.

Two-nerved; -- applied to leaves which have two longitudinal ribs or nerves.