Bond

a written acknowledgment or en” of a debt under seal. The person who gives the bond is called the obligor, and be to whom it is given the obligee, Bond, in masonry, a stone or brick which is laid with its length acro a wall, or extends through the facing course into that behind, so as to bind the facing to the backing, Bond, George Phillips, an American astronomer, born in Dor chester, Ma ., May 20, 1825; a son of Wilfian Cranch Bond; a isted his father in the Harvard College Observatory, ond at the time of the latter’s death wus appointed director. He discovered independently 11 new comets, and was the author of an elaborate memoir on the appearance of Donati’s comet in 1858.