Definition of Bind

Bind

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.

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.

To cover, as with a bandage; to bandage or dress; -- sometimes with up; as, to bind up a wound.

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.

To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action; as, certain drugs bind the bowels.

To protect or strengthen by a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.

To sew or fasten together, and inclose in a cover; as, to bind a book.

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.

To bring (any one) under definite legal obligations; esp. under the obligation of a bond or covenant.

To place under legal obligation to serve; to indenture; as, to bind an apprentice; -- sometimes with out; as, bound out to service.

To tie; to confine by any ligature.

To contract; to grow hard or stiff; to cohere or stick together in a mass; as, clay binds by heat.

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.

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

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

A ligature or tie for grouping notes.

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With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
Abraham Lincoln

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.
Thomas Jefferson

It is not easy to find something that will intrigue and bind your interest and enthusiasm. This you must seek for yourself.
Walter Annenberg

Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be.
Ramakrishna

The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.
Neil Young

Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans.
Barbara Jordan

In a recent decision of the Supreme Court, not made, however, by the full court, and concurred in by only four justices, it was held that the seller of a patented mimeograph could bind the purchaser to use only his ink in the machine, though the ink was not patented.
John Bates Clark

If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free.
Vinoba Bhave

I have a private press. I'm a book artist. I publish books of other authors and artists. I do the illustrating. I set the type. I print it myself on my press. I do everything but bind it.
Gloria Stuart

Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
Victoria Jackson