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BI'NDING, ppr. Fastening with a band confining restraining covering or wrapping obliging by a promise or other moral tie making costive contracting making hard or stiff.

BI'NDING, a. That obliges obligatory as the binding force of a moral duty or of a command.

BI'NDING, n. The act of fastening with a band or obliging a bandage the cover of a book, with the sewing and accompanying work any thing that binds something that secures the edge of cloth.

1. In the art of defense, a method of securing or crossing the adversary's sword with a pressure, accompanied with a spring of the wrist.

Binding-joists, in architecture, are the joists of a floor into which the trimmers of staircases, or well holes of the stairs and chimney ways, are framed.

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Entry for 'Binding'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​b/binding.html.
 
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