binching (binching)

[Appar. a dial. form of benching. Cf. dial. bink, benk = bench.] In coal- mining, the bed or rock on which a layer of coal rests. [Somersets hire, Eng.] bind (bind), v.; pret. bound, pp. bound (formerly bounden, now only attrib.), ppr. binding. [ IMG:content-2073.png:[blocks in formation] 2. To unite by any legal or moral tie; attach by considerations of love, duty, interest, obligation, etc.: as, bound in the bonds of matrimony; bound by gratitude, duty, debt, etc. Distrust and grief Will bind to us each Western chief. Scott , L. of the L., ii. 30. 3. To put in bonds or fetters; deprive of liberty or of the use of the limbs by making fast physically. Bind him hand and foot, and take him away. Mat. xxii. 13. He took Paul's girdle, and bound his own hands and feet, and said, the man that owneth this girdle. 4. To restrain; hold to a particular state, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind Acts xxi. 11. place, employment, etc. He bindeth the floods from overflowing. Job xxviii. 11. I have no official busine to bind me. Macaulay, in Trevelyan, II. vii. 5. To hinder or restrain (the bowels) from their natural operations; make costive; constipate.-6. To fasten around anything; fix in place by girding or tying: as, to bind a cord round the arm. I, maiden, round thee, maiden, bind my belt. Tennyson, Holy Grail. 7. To encircle with a band or ligature; gird; confine or restrain by girding: as, " bind up those tre es," Shak ., K. John, iii. 4. A fillet binds her hair. Pope , Windsor Forest, 1. 178. binding II. in trans. 1. To cohere; stick together.2. To become indurated, hard, or stiff: as, clay binds by heat.-3. To be obligatory or of force. Those canons or imperial constitutions which have not been received here do not bind . Sir M. Hale. 4. To tie up anything; specifically, to tie up sheaves. They that reap must sheaf and bind . Shak., As you Like it, iii. 2. 5. In falconry, to seize a bird in the air and cling to it: said of a hawk. bind (bind), п. [ Their bind was just a Scots pint overhead, and a tappithen to the bill, and no man ever saw them the waur o't. Scott , St. Ronan's Well, I. i. 5. A climbing stem; a bine; specifically, a stalk of hops. See binel. The whyle God of his grace ded growe of that soyle The fayrest bynde hym [Jonah] abof that ever burne wyste. Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), iii. 444. binder (bin'der), n. [ byndere , bin dere , bind an , bind: see bind , v ., and -er1.] 1. A person who binds.. Specifically- ( a ) One He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. Ps. clxvii. 3. Give me another horse, bind up my wounds. Shak ., Rich III., v. 3. 9. To form a border or edge on, for the purpose of strengthening or ornamenting; edge: as, to bind a wheel with a tire; to bind a garment or a carpet. Her mantle rich, whose borders round A deep and fretted broidery bound . Scott, Marmion, vi. 3. Black cliffs and high, With green gra growing on the tops of them, Binding them round as gold a garment's hem. William Morris, Earthly Paradise, I. 172. 10. To tie or fasten (loose things) together with a band, cord, or tie; tie up into one bun dle or ma : as, to bind sheaves of grain.-11. To fasten or secure within a cover, as a book or pamphlet. See bookbinding.-12. In fen cing, to secure (the sword of an adversary). See binding, n., 3.-13. To cause to cohere; cement; knit; unite firmly: as, to bind the loose sand. The sooner to effect, And surer bind , this knot of amity, - The Earl of Armagnac Proffers his only daughter to your grace In marriage. Shak., 1 Hen. VI., v. 1. binds sheaves.-2. Anything that binds, in any sense of that verb.-3. In bricklaying, a header which extends partly through a wall; a bonder. -4. In carp., a tie-beam; a binding-joist serving as a transverse support for the bridging joists above and the ceiling-joists below.-5. An attachment to a sewing-machine for folding an edge or a binding.-6. In agri.: ( a ) An attachment to a reaper for tying the bundles of grain. ( b ) A separate horse-power machine for gathering up and binding grain already cut.7. An arrester or stop for the shuttle of a loom. -8. A temporary cover for loose sheets of music, papers, etc.-9. pl. Same as binding, 4. - Binders' board, thick, smooth, calendered pasteboard used for the covers of books.