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.