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To set free; to liberate from slavery, prison, or any binding power. Bacon.

The act or manner of binding up; bandage; also, the condition of being fasciated.

To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce. [Obs.] What can the church force more J. Webster.

A lashing binding a thing tightly or binding things together.

oesible. -- Full band (Mus.), a band in which all the instruments are employed. -- Full binding, the binding of a book when made wholly of leather, as distinguished from half binding. -- Full bottom, a kind of wig full and large at the bottom. -- Full brother or sister, a brother or sister having the same parents a…

The union, or binding together, of adjacent parts or tissues.

A square or beveled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.

A narrow tapelike fabric used for binding hats, shoes, etc., -- sometimes made ornamental.

Assembling; collecting; used for gathering or concentrating. Gathering board (Bookbinding), a table or board on which signatures are gathered or assembled, to form a book. Knight. -- Gathering coal, a lighted coal left smothered in embers over night, about which kindling wood is gathered in the morning. -- Gathering…

An agreement binding only as a matter of honor; often, specif., such an agreement among the heads of industrial or merchantile enterprises, the terms of which could not be included and enforced in a legal contract.

To make fast, as clothing, by binding with a cord, girdle, bandage, etc.

The white of egg. It is used as a size or a glaze in bookbinding, for pastry, etc.

n digging canals. -- Grafting wax, a composition of rosin, beeswax tallow, etc., used in binding up the wounds of newly grafted trees.

ulgence or latitude a small allowance. -- Grain binder, an attachment to a harvester for binding the grain into sheaves. -- Grain colors, dyes made from the coccus or kermes in sect. -- Grain leather. (a) Dressed horse hides. (b) Goat, seal, and other skins blacked on the grain side for women's shoes, etc. -- Grain…

1479-1565), a French bibliophile, is commonly known; -- used in naming a certain style of binding, a design, etc.

To fasten by binding; to gird. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

h, for the sear point to enter, in the tumbler of a gunlock; the halfcock notch. -- Half binding, a style of bookbinding in which only the back and corners are in leather. -- Half boarder, one who boards in part; specifically, a scholar at a boarding school who takes dinner only. -- Half-breadth plan (Shipbuilding),…

To fasten (an animal) by a rope binding the head to one of the fore legs; as, to hamshackle a horse or cow; hence, to bind or restrain; to curb.

Binding power and influence. Fear . . . by which God and his laws take the surest hold of. Tillotson.

honor, a debt contracted by a verbal promise, or by betting or gambling, considered more binding than if recoverable by law. -- Honor bright! An assurance of truth or fidelity. [Colloq.] -- Honor court (Feudal Law), one held in an honor or seignory. -- Honor point. (Her.) See Escutcheon. -- Honors of war (Mil.), di…