Definition of binding

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Binding (pl.) The transoms, knees, beams, keelson, and other chief timbers used for connecting and strengthening the parts of a vessel..

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Bandage :: Bandage (n.) A fillet or strip of woven material, used in dressing and binding up wounds, etc..
Bondstone :: Bondstone (n.) A stone running through a wall from one face to another, to bind it together; a binding stone..
Binding :: Binding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bin.
Roan :: Roan (a.) Made of the leather called roan; as, roan binding..
Swig :: Swig (v. t.) To castrate, as a ram, by binding the testicles tightly with a string, so that they mortify and slough off..
Obligation :: Obligation (n.) That which obligates or constrains; the binding power of a promise, contract, oath, or vow, or of law; that which constitutes legal or moral duty..
Incapacity :: Incapacity (n.) Want of legal ability or competency to do, give, transmit, or receive something; inability; disqualification; as, the inacapacity of minors to make binding contracts, etc..
Sanctity :: Sanctity (n.) Sacredness; solemnity; inviolability; religious binding force; as, the sanctity of an oath..
Bibliopegy :: Bibliopegy (n.) The art of binding books.
Wattling :: Wattling (n.) The act or process of binding or platting with twigs; also, the network so formed..
Indissoluble :: Indissoluble (a.) Incapable of being rightfully broken or dissolved; perpetually binding or obligatory; firm; stable, as, an indissoluble league or covenant..
Hamshackle :: Hamshackle (v. t.) To fasten (an animal) by a rope binding the head to one of the fore legs; as, to hamshackle a horse or cow; hence, to bind or restrain; to curb..
Bond :: Bond (n.) A binding force or influence; a cause of union; a uniting tie; as, the bonds of fellowship..
Lasher :: Lasher (n.) A piece of rope for binding or making fast one thing to another; -- called also lashing.
Roxburgh :: Roxburgh (n.) A style of bookbinding in which the back is plain leather, the sides paper or cloth, the top gilt-edged, but the front and bottom left uncut..
Constringent :: Constringent (a.) Having the quality of contracting, binding, or compressing..
Skiver :: Skiver (n.) An inferior quality of leather, made of split sheepskin, tanned by immersion in sumac, and dyed. It is used for hat linings, pocketbooks, bookbinding, etc..
Withe-rod :: Withe-rod (n.) A North American shrub (Viburnum nudum) whose tough osierlike shoots are sometimes used for binding sheaves.
Astrictive :: Astrictive (a.) Binding; astringent.
Karaite :: Karaite (n.) A sect of Jews who adhere closely to the letter of the Scriptures, rejecting the oral law, and allowing the Talmud no binding authority; -- opposed to the Rabbinists..
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