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A box, frame, crib, or inclosed place, used as a receptacle for any commodity; as, a corn bin; a wine bin; a coal bin.

A euphonic form of the prefix Bi-.

Twofold; double. [R.] "Binal revenge, all this." Ford.

A salt having two equivalents of arsenic acid to one of the base. Graham.

Compounded or consisting of two things or parts; characterized by two (things). Binary arithmetic, that in which numbers are expressed according to the binary scale, or in which two figures only, 0 and 1, are used, in lieu of ten; the cipher multiplying everything by two, as in common arithmetic by ten. Thus, 1 is one;…

Double; growing in pairs or couples. Gray.

Of or pertaining to, or used by, both ears.

A major in the Turkish army.

tie, or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to bind a prisoner.

One who binds; as, a binder of sheaves; one whose trade is to bind; as, a binder of books.

A place where books, or other articles, are bound; a bookbinder's establishment.

An amorphous antimonate of lead, produced from the alteration of other ores, as from jamesonite.

That binds; obligatory. Binding beam (Arch.), the main timber in double flooring. -- Binding joist (Arch.), the secondary timber in double-framed flooring.

A metallic post attached to electrical apparatus for convenience in making connections.

A set screw used to bind parts together, esp. one for making a connection in an electrical circuit.

So as to bind.

The condition or property of being binding; obligatory quality. Coleridge.

A plant of the genus Convolvulus; as, greater bindweed (C. Sepium); lesser bindweed (C. arvensis); the white, the blue, the Syrian, bindweed. The black bryony, or Tamus, is called black bindweed, and the Smilax aspera, rough bindweed. The fragile bindweed bells and bryony rings. Tennyson.

The winding or twining stem of a hop vine or other climbing plant.

Two-nerved; -- applied to leaves which have two longitudinal ribs or nerves.