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An instrument for ligating, or for placing and fastening a ligature.

Any machine with strong jaws, one of which opens like the movable jaw of an alligator; as, (a) (Metal Working)

A kind of pipe wrench having a flaring jaw with teeth on one side.

Releasing from obligation. "Disobligatory power." Charles I.

In an obligatory manner; by reason of obligation. Foxe.

The quality or state of being obligatory.

rformance or forbearance of some act; -- often followed by on or upon; as, obedience is obligatory on a soldier. As long as the law is obligatory, so long our obedience is due. Jer. Taylor.

To receive as obligatory and promise to pay; as, to accept a bill of exchange. Bouvier.

ërobia when able to live either in the presence or absence of free oxygen; obligate, or obligatory, anaërobia when they thrive only in its absence.

Of or pertaining to the Antinomians; opposed to the doctrine that the moral law is obligatory.

l America. It is about the size and shape of a large pear; -- called also avocado pear, alligator pear, midshipman's butter.

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

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

Made obligatory; imposed as a duty; binding. I am much bounden to your majesty. Shak.

The south America alligator. See Alligator. [Sometimes written caiman.]

, but the better opinion is that it is part of the common law of the land, and hence is obligatory as law.

Obligatory; enjoined by authority; necessary; due to complusion. This contribution therestening fall infinitely short of their hopes, they soon made it compulsory. Burke.

The tree producing the aligator apple. (3)

s, or C. Niloticus). The Florida crocodile (C. Americanus) is much less common than the alligator and has longer jaws. The name is also sometimes applied to the species of other related genera, as the gavial and the alligator.

An order of reptiles including the crocodiles, gavials, alligators, and many extinct kinds.