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To fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord
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binding
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Binding \Bind"ing\, n. The act or process of one who, or that which, binds. Anything that binds; a bandage; the cover of a book, or the cover with the sewing, etc.; something that secures the edge of cloth from raveling. pl. (Naut.) The transoms, knees, ...
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Binding may refer to persons or places with naming from a variety of origins, or to the concept of bringing or holding two or more separate things together:
Usage examples of binding.
In 1867 the debtor for the first time was permitted, either before or after adjudication of bankruptcy, to propose terms of composition which would become binding upon acceptance by a designated majority of his creditors and confirmation by a bankruptcy court.
Also, in a suit to enforce double liability, brought in Rhode Island against a stockholder in a Kansas trust company, the courts of Rhode Island were held to be obligated to extend recognition to the statutes and court decisions of Kansas whereunder it is established that a Kansas judgment recovered by a creditor against the trust company is not only conclusive as to the liability of the corporation but also an adjudication binding each stockholder therein.
Stripped and adust In a stubble of empire Scything and binding The full sheaves of sovereignty.
Stripped and adust In a stubble of empire, Scything and binding The full sheaves of sovranty: Thus, O, thus gloriously, Shall you fulfil yourselves!
At the edge of the woods, the tall stems of goldenrod, low masses of blue ageratum, black-eyed Susans, and lavender asters, all tangled with binding vines of pink morning glory just closing its flowers.
When Alec had pulled the lacings snug, he carefully draped a gauzy wimple over his hair, binding it with a silk cord and arranging the folds to spread gracefully over his shoulders.
They writhed and twisted and foamed, broke open in sores as the bacteria destroyed the binding structure of the amorphous tissue.
The bandaged hand was still dry, though the bindings keeping his Grace in the saddle had chafed a sore in one wrist.
I was a comparatively sane bibliomaniac, but to Allen the time came when he grudged every penny that he did not spend on rare books, and when he actually gave up his share of the water we used to take together, that his contribution to the rent might go for rare editions and bindings.
Philippe Liotard had started collecting testimonials from bibliophiles, and it had turned out that Steuvels was one of the best bookbinders in Paris, possibly the best, and that collectors entrusted their delicate work to him, especially the restoration of antique bindings.
An international bimetallic system, binding nations to each other for a definite term of years, is a proposition involving large responsibilities.
Rudy Noyes sat impassively beside Bookman, and Kyril Montana studied the wire binding holding his small notebook together.
Human Health: A Journey Within, by Faith Hickman Brynie, Library Binding, published by Millbrook Press, 1995.
The drawling voice which answered filled the lobby, ascended to the green skylight far above, moved inexorably outward from the place of utterance to the balcony edges, thrust through the banisters to flow into the aisles of books, soaking each volume in turn so that the very bindings became redolent with that sound, not echoing but vibrating nonetheless in a reverberating hum larger than the building itself, a seeking pressure which left no corner unexplored.
Beeah Chok, engineering second, to make binding legal contracts contingent on her signature.