To make fast (to, on, or upon) with a band or bond of any kind.To unite by any legal or moral tie; attach by considerations of love, duty, interest, obligation, etc.: as, bound in the bonds of matrimony; bound by gratitude, duty, debt, etc.To put in bonds or fetters; deprive of liberty or of the use of the limbs by making fast physically.To restrain; hold to a particular state, place, employment, etc.To hinder or restrain (the bowels) from their natural operations; make costive; constipate.To fasten around anything; fix in place by girding or tying: as, to bind a cord round the arm.To encircle with a band or ligature; gird; confine or restrain by girding: as, “bind up those tresses,”To swathe or bandage; cover and swathe with dressings: with up.To form a border or edge on, for the purpose of strengthening or ornamenting; edge: as, to bind a wheel with a tire; to bind a garment or a carpet.To tie or fasten (loose things) together with a band, cord, or tie; tie up into one bundle or mass: as, to bind sheaves of grain.To fasten or secure within a cover, as a book or pamphlet. See bookbinding.In fencing, to secure (the sword of an adversary). See binding, n., 3.To cause to cohere; cement; knit; unite firmly: as, to bind the loose sand.To place under obligation or compulsion: as, all are bound to obey the laws.To put under legal obligation: often with over: as, to bind a man over to keep the peace.Specifically To indenture as an apprentice: often with out.To cohere; stick together.To become indurated, hard, or stiff: as, clay binds by heat.To be obligatory or of force.To tie up anything; specifically, to tie up sheaves.In falconry, to seize a bird in the air and cling to it: said of a hawk.n. A tie or band; anything that binds. Specifically— A connecting timber in a ship.n. In music, a tie, slur, or brace.n. In coal-mining, indurated, argillaceous shale or clay, such as frequently forms the roof of a coal-seam: same as bend, 12, and bat, 10.n. A unit of tale. A bind of eels is 250. A bind of skins is 32, or of some kinds 40.n. Bounds; limit; stint: as, I am at my bind.n. A climbing stem; a bine; specifically, a stalk of hops. See bine.