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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.

One whose occupation is to bind books.

A bookbinder's shop; a place or establishment for binding books.

A ruffian; one who hounds, or spies upon, another; app. esp. to the members of certain alleged societies among the Chinese. [U. S.]

A reaping machine containing mechanism for binding the grain into sheaves.

A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.; -- so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing.

A bookbinder.

between being filled with broken stone and mortar. Cross layers of stone are interlaid as binders. [R.] Weale.

A bookbinder's tool for blind tooling or gilding, having a face which forms a curve.

ury.-- A grain of allowance, a slight indulgence 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 gra…

loaves of bread from a baker's oven; also, a T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry. Also, the blade of an oar.

large stone reaching through a wall so as to appear on both sides of it, and acting as a binder; -- called also perbend, perpend stone, and perpent stone.

t the bottom of the first page of each sheet of a book or pamphlet, as a direction to the binder in arranging and folding the sheets.

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.