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To revolve or spin like a top; to whirl. [R.]

Whirling in the manner of a top. A spiral and turbinated motion of the whole. Bentley.

The act of spinning or whirling, as a top.

chamber, inward from an external casing, or from above downward, etc.; -- also called turbine wheel.

A genus of large marine gastropods having a thick heavy shell with conspicuous folds on the columella.

A petrified shell resembling the genus Turbo. [R.]

Like or pertaining to Turbo or the family Turbinidæ.

and from; to set free from shackles or fastenings; to unite; to unfasten; to loose; as, unbind your fillets; to unbind a prisoner's arms; to unbind a load.

To separate, as substances in combination; to release from combination or union. [R.] Daniel.

To bind beneath. Fairfax.

To bind up. [R.] Collins.

A yellowish amorphous alkaloid extracted from the rootstock of Veratrum album.

Any plant of the genus Arum, especially, in England, the cuckoopint (Arum maculatum).

A woven band of cotton or flax, used for reins, girths, bed bottoms, etc.

Woodbine. Dryden. A garland . . . of woodbind or hawthorn leaves. Chaucer.

A climbing plant having flowers of great fragrance (Lonicera Periclymenum); the honeysuckle.

small periodical change of position in the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer; called annual aberration, when the observer's motion is that of the earth in its orbit, and dairy or diurnal aberration, when of the earth on its axis; amounting…

A volatile oil distilled from the resin or balsam of the nut pine (Pinus sabiniana) of California.

Macaulay. A faithful man shall abound with blessings. Prov. xxviii. 20. It abounds with cabinets of curiosities. Addison.

Around; all round; on every side of. "Look about you." Shak. "Bind them about thy neck." Prov. iii. 3.