Word Meanings - ASTRICTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Binding; astringent. -- n.

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• BINDING POST
  A metallic post attached to electrical apparatus for convenience in making connections.
• BINDING
  That binds; obligatory. Binding beam , the main timber in double flooring. -- Binding joist , the secondary timber in double-framed flooring. Syn. -- Obligatory; restraining; restrictive; stringent; astringent; costive; styptic.
• BINDING SCREW
  A set screw used to bind parts together, esp. one for making a connection in an electrical circuit.
• BINDERY
  A place where books, or other articles, are bound; a bookbinder's establishment.
• ASTRINGENTLY
  In an astringent manner.
• BIND
  bunden; akin to D. & G. binden, Dan. binde, Sw. & Icel. binda, Goth. bindan, Skr. bandh to bind, cf. Gr. cable, and L. 1. To tie, or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to
• BINDINGLY
  So as to bind.
• ASTRINGENT
  1. Drawing together the tissues; binding; contracting; -- opposed to laxative; as, astringent medicines; a butter and astringent taste; astringent fruit. 2. Stern; austere; as, an astringent type of virtue.
• BINDWEED
  A plant of the genus Convolvulus; as, greater bindweed (C. Sepium); lesser bindweed ; the white, the blue, the Syrian, bindweed. The black bryony, or Tamus, is called black bindweed, and the Smilax aspera, rough bindweed. The fragile bindweed bells
• BINDER
  1. One who binds; as, a binder of sheaves; one whose trade is to bind; as, a binder of books. 2. Anything that binds, as a fillet, cord, rope, or band; a bandage; -- esp. the principal piece of timber intended to bind together any building.
• BINDINGNESS
  The condition or property of being binding; obligatory quality. Coleridge.
• BINDHEIMITE
  An amorphous antimonate of lead, produced from the alteration of other ores, as from jamesonite.
• SUBINDIVIDUAL
  A division of that which is individual. An individual can not branch itself into subindividuals. Milton.
• SPELLBIND
  To bind or hold by, or as if by, a spell or charm; to fascinate, esp. by eloquence of speech, as in a political campaign. - - Spell"bind`er , n.
• SUBASTRINGENT
  Somewhat astringent.
• SUBINDEX
  A number or mark placed opposite the lower part of a letter or symbol to distinguish the symbol; thus, a0, b1, c2, xn, have 0, 1, 2, and n as subindices.
• BOOKBINDERY
  A bookbinder's shop; a place or establishment for binding books.
• CORNBIND
  A weed that binds stalks of corn, as Convolvulus arvensis, Polygonum Convolvulus.
• SUBINDICATE
  To indicate by signs or hints; to indicate imperfectly. Dr. H. More.
• BEARBIND
  The bindweed .
• BOOKBINDING
  The art, process, or business of binding books.
• HOPBINE; HOPBIND
  The climbing stem of the hop. Blackstone.
• HIGHBINDER
  A ruffian; one who hounds, or spies upon, another; app. esp. to the members of certain alleged societies among the Chinese.
• SUBINDUCE
  To insinuate; to offer indirectly. Sir E. Dering.
• BOOKBINDER
  One whose occupation is to bind books.
• SELF-BINDER
  A reaping machine containing mechanism for binding the grain into sheaves.