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.
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. --Job xxviii. 11.
Whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years. --Luke xiii. 16.
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. --Milton.
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.
{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.
Syn: To fetter; tie; fasten; restrain; restrict; oblige.
Bind \Bind\, v. i. 1. To tie; to confine by any ligature.
They that reap must sheaf and bind. --Shak.
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 \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. --Kirwan.
4. (Mus.) A ligature or tie for grouping notes.
She said she agreed to go along with the killings, sometimes acting as a lookout, because she hoped it would bind their love.
None of this would bind the Soviets, of course, since it wouldn't be a formal treaty.
"Indeed, the commission has clearly indicated that it does not intend the policy statement to bind the commission to do anything in any particular proceeding."
But oil users aren't the only ones in a bind.
Mr. Holmes a Court has permission from U.S. securities regulators to buy as much as 15% of Texaco, and some analysts said his failure to buy up Texaco shares as their price has sagged indicates he is in a cash bind.
The two Germanys signed a historic treaty that will bind them into a single economic entity in less than seven weeks and all but formally end their four-decade separation.
She is diminished when (competent) regulators bind them.
Some ties that bind AT&T and Sun will continue at least for the near term.
Now it's time to find an additional means for dealing with the problem, because otherwise the big-spending practices of Washington are going to put us into a fiscal bind: The next time the economy slows down, deficits could mushroom.
Rockwell, thus, seems to be in a bind: It can keep running the plant and break the law, or it can shutter it and probably come under fire for endangering national security.
Six months after the high court said it would use a challenge to the California rule to issue a decision that would bind all the states, the justices dismissed the case.
Day care and mental health programs could be scaled back because, he said, strict levy limitations bind the county.
The Israeli official is on a semiannual visit to Washington to develop the strategic ties that bind the United States with its leading Middle Eastern ally.
That leaves Enterprise in the same bind. It needs to improve the offer, probably by offering significant amounts of cash, if it is to clinch Lasmo.
So to cut its gearing, the company is selling part of its future. The bind is all the tighter because crude oil prices show little sign of rising above Dollars 20 a barrel.
"To bind anybody, you've got to have a broader group" than those attending Sunday's meeting, said Rep. Silvio Conte of Massachusetts, ranking Republican on the House Appropriations Committee.
The bind is that even if volumes pick up, there will still be too many companies bidding for the available work. The recession has caused few casualties among leading companies, with several of the near-dead kept alive by their bankers.
Now two chemists at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Peoria, Ill., laboratory have devised a way to force starch and a synthetic plastic polymer to bind together to produce a strong plastic film.
"The company that is really in the bind is one with between 25 and 100 employees, because it can't do an SAR-SEP right now," says Mary Barneby, president of the employee-benefit division of Dreyfus Corp.
His Bond Corp. empire of brewing, media, property and resources interests is caught in a cash bind.
With most systems that companies use to bind presentations and reports, the pages are placed in a binder with a glue strip and heated in a heat-generating machine that activates the glue.
More than half the car buyers at many dealerships find themselves in a similar bind, as consumers increasingly turn to longer-term loans.
It helps us understand the forces that bind matter together and make it decay" radioactively.
Specific substances bind to each kind of receptor before they enter the cell.
The bind would be all the tighter because, as loan demand picks up, banks will start to liquidate their substantial holdings of short-term government debt.
These are then cemented in and tightened to bind the rock together.
"Campaigns tend to bind," Mr. Sununu says.
If the compound doesn't bind tightly to a targeted receptor, several pounds of it might be needed to make a single drug dose.
It would cost Mr Major nothing: he cannot bind future parliaments.
The shrinking harvest puts the Soviet government in a bind because it is responsible for buying the grain needed by its food manufacturing industry.