Bind

bind, v. [imp. bound (bownd); p. p. bound, formerly bounden binding.] To tie together or confine with cord, bands, etc.; to restrain or hold; to protect or strengthen by a band, or cover; to place under legal obligation to serve. — v. To contract; to grow hard or stiff to be restrained from motion; to be obligatory. — n. A stalk of hops, which winds round a pole or tree. [AS. and Goth, bind an, D. and G. binden, Ic. and Sw. bind a, Skr. bandh, to bind.] — To bind over. To oblige by bond to appear at a court. — To bind up in. To cause to be wholly engro ed with. — Bind'er, n. One who, etc., esp. who binds books; anything that binds: a bandage. — Bind'ery, -Sr-i, n. A place where books, etc., are bound.— Binding, a. Having power to bind or oblige; obligatory. — n. Act of fastening with a band; anything that binds, as a bandage, the cover of a book, or something to secure the edge of cloth from raveling. — Bind'-web, n. (Anat.) The connective ti ue of the brain and spinal cord; the neuroglia. —weed, n. (Bot.) A twining wild plant, — a kind of convolvulus. wood, n. Ivy.