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The result of effect of a striking; injury or affliction; soreness. In the day that Lord bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound. Isa. xxx. 26.

The act of binding underneath. [R.]

To sign with one's own hand; to give consent to, as something written, or to bind one's self to the terms of, by writing one's name beneath; as, parties subscribe a covenant or contract; a man subscribes a bond. All the bishops subscribed the sentence. Milman.

ers to distinguish them; as, a, n, 2, in the symbols Xa, An, Y2. See Suffix, n., 2, and Subindex.

t, band, or girth which passes over a saddle, or over anything laid on a horse's back, to bind it fast.

nd before God. Sir T. More. I presume . . . that you had been sure as fast as faith could bind you, man and wife. Brome.

To bind as with a bandage; to bind or warp tightly with clothes; to swathe; -- used esp. of infants; as, to swaddle a baby. They swaddled me up in my nightgown with long pieces of linen. Addison.

To bind with a swathe, band, bandage, or rollers. Their children are never swathed or bound about with any thing when they are first born. Abp. Abbot.

A switch or rod used by thatchers to bind their work. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

the mind; mild; gentle; calm; amiable; winning; presuasive; as, sweet manners. Canst thou bind the sweet influence of Pleiades Job xxxviii. 31. Mildness and sweet reasonableness is the one established rule of Christian working. M. Arnold.

To castrate, as a ram, by binding the testicles tightly with a string, so that they mortify and slough off. [Prov. Eng.]

A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.

To carry; to convey; to deliver to another; to hand over; as, he took the book to the bindery. He took me certain gold, I wot it well. Chaucer.

as in contracts, which, when assented to or accepted by another, settle the contract and bind the parties; conditions.

electrical apparatus, as an inductorium, dynamo, or electric motor, usually provided with binding screws for the attachment of wires by which a current may be conveyed into or from the machine; a pole.

applied by the Romans to several of their gods, esp. to Jupiter. That dreadful oath which binds the Thunderer. Pope.

nited in the performance, or that two notes of the same pitch are to be sounded as one; a bind; a ligature.

A bright brown polished calfskin binding of books, stained with a conventional treelike design.

To bind or pack close; to make into a truss. Shak. It [his hood] was trussed up in his wallet. Chaucer.

three smaller threads or strands twisted together, and used for various purposes, as for binding small parcels, making nets, and the like; a small cord or string.