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.
The King James Bible has stood its ground for nearly 400 years. However, during that time the English language has changed, and with it the meanings of some words it used. Here are more than 6,500 words whose definitions have changed since 1611.Wikipedia
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