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a cord, chain, etc.; a band; a ligament; a shackle or a manacle. Gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder, I gained my freedom. Shak.

other . . . be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bond servant: but as an hired servant. Lev. xxv. 39, 40.

The condition of a bond servant; sevice without wages; slavery. Their children . . . upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bond service. 1 Kings ix. 21.

ry; captivity. The King, when he designed you for my guard, Resolved he would not make my bondage hard. Dryden.

A field worker, esp. a woman who works in the field. [Scot.]

A small quadruped of Bengal (Paradoxurus bondar), allied to the genet; -- called also musk cat.

Placed under, or covered by, a bond, as for the payment of duties, or for conformity to coertain regulations. Bonded goods, goods placed in a bonded warehouse; goods, for the duties on which bonds are given at the customhouse. -- Bonded warehouse, a warehouse in which goods on which the duties are unpaid are stored un…

One who places goods under bond or in a bonded warehouse.

A person who holds the bonds of a public or private corporation for the payment of money at a certain time.

A female slave, or one bound to service without wages, as distinguished from a hired servant.

A man slave, or one bound to service without wages. "To enfranchise bondmen." Macaulay.

A person in a state of slavery; one whose person and liberty are subjected to the authority of a master.

A slave; a villain; a serf; a bondman. Carnal, greedy people, without such a precept, would have no mercy upon their poor bondsmen. Derham.

A stone running through a wall from one face to another, to bind it together; a binding stone.

See Bondwoman.

See Nicker tree.

A woman who is a slave, or in bondage. He who was of the bondwoman. Gal. iv. 23.

An instrument which, in conjunction with another making an absolute disposition, constitutes a trust.

A bond or obligation given by a prisoner and his surety, to insure the prisoner's appearance in court, at the return of the writ.

A bond in which the obligor, in consideration of having received a certain sum of money, binds himself to pay a larger sum, on unusual interest, on the death of some specified individual from whom he has expectations. Bouvier.