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BIND,

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

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

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

4. To restrain in any manner.

He bindeth the floods from overflowing. Job 28

5. 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 .

We are bound by the laws of kindness, of nature, of a state, &c.

6. To confirm or ratify.

Whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth, shall be bound in heaven. Matthew 16

7. To distress, trouble, or confine by infirmity.

Whom Satan hath bound these eighteen years. Luke 13 .

8. To constrain by a powerful influence or persuasion.

I go bound in the spirit to Jerusalem. Acts 20

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

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

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

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

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

14. 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.