To tie together, or confine with a cord, or any thing that is flexible; to fasten as with a band, fillet or ligature.

To gird, inwrap or involve; to confine by a wrapper, cover or bandage; sometimes with up; as, to bind up a wound.

To confine or restrain, as with a chain, fetters or cord; as, bind him hand and foot.

To restrain in any manner. He bindeth the floods from overflowing. Job 28:17.

To oblige by a promise, vow, stipulation, covenant, law, duty or any other moral tie; to engage. If a man shall swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond. Numbers 30:2. We are bound by the laws of kindness, of nature, of a state.

To confirm or ratify. Whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth, shall be bound in heaven. Matthew 16:19. 2ff

To distress, trouble, or confine by infirmity. Whom Satan hath bound these eighteen years. Luke 13:16.

To constrain by a powerful influence or persuasion. I go bound in the spirit to Jerusalem. Acts 20:22.

To restrain the natural discharges of the bowels; to make costive; as, certain kinds of food bind the body or bowels.

To form a border; to fasten with a band, ribin, or any thing that strengthens the edges; as, to bind a garment or carpet.

To cover with leather or anything firm; to sew together and cover; as, to bind a book.

To cover or secure by a band; as, to bind a wheel with tire.

To oblige to serve, by contract; as, to bind an apprentice; often with out; as, to bind out a servant.

To make hard or firm; as, certain substances bind the earth. To bind to is to contract; as, to bind one’s self to a wife. To bind over is to oblige by bond to appear at a court.

To contract; to grow hard or stiff; as, clay binds by heat.

To grow or become costive.

To be obligatory.

A stalk of hops, so called from its winding round a pole or tree, or being bound to it.

A bind of eels, is a quantity consisting of 10 strikes, each containing 25 eels, or 250 in the whole.

Among miners, indurated clay, when much mixed with the oxyd of iron.