bina 
bina (be'na), . [< Hind. bin. Cf. been*.'] An 
East Indian guitar with seven strings. Also 
called i-ina. 
binacle, . See binnacle. 
binal (bl'nal), a. [< ML. binalis, double, < L. 
liini, two 'by two: see binary."] Twofold; 
double; binary: as, "binal revenge," Ford, 
Witch of Edmonton, iii. 2. 
The attempt of the French to compel the use of the 
decimal system shows the difficulty of such an undertak- 
ing. Popular necessities compelled the introduction of 
binal divisions. Pop. Sci. Mo., XIII. 423. 
binariant (bi-na'ri-ant), u. A solution of the 
differential equation, bDa + cDb +, etc., = 0. 
binary (bi'na-ri), a. and n. [< L. biiiarius, 
consisting of two things, < bini, pi. (rarely 
sing, binus), two by two, two, < bis, double : 
see fej-2. Cf. between.'] I. a. I. Twofold; 
dual; double; twain; twin; paired: said of 
anything which is composed of two things or 
considered as divided into two things. 2. In 
bot., having the organs in twos : applied to 
flowers : equivalent to dimerous Binary arith- 
metic, that system, invented by Leibnitz, in which two 
figures only, and 1, are used in lieu of ten, the cipher 
being placed as in common arithmetic, but denoting mul- 
tiplication by 2 instead of by 10. Thus, 1 is one ; 10 is 
two ; 11 is three ; 100 is four ; 101 is five ; 110 is six ; 111 is 
seven; 1000 is eight; 1001 is nine; 1010 is ten. Binary 
classification, binary system, in zool., one which di- 
vides a group of objects into two series, as the class of 
birds into two subclasses, Altrices and Prcecoces ; a dichot- 
omous arrangement : opposed to quinary, etc. Binary 
compound, in chem., a compound of two elements, or of 
an element and a compound performing the function of 
an element, or of two compounds performing the functions 
of elements, according to the laws of combination. Fara- 
day assigns as the distinctive character of a binary com- 
pound that it admits of electrolysis. Binary cubic. See 
cubic. Binary engine, an engine having the piston of 
one cylinder impelled by steam which, being exhausted 
into another part of the apparatus, communicates its un- 
utilized heat to some volatile liquid at a lower tempera- 
ture ; the vapor of this second liquid, by its expansion in a 
second cylinder, yields additional force. Binary enun- 
ciation, in logic, a categorical proposition whose verb is 
not to be : as, Socrates dies. Usually called a proposition 
ofse ynd adjacent. Binary form, or binary quantic, 
in alg., a homogeneous function of two variables; as: 
ax + by, 
az2 + bxy + cy? 
ax* + bx2y + cxy* + dyS, etc. 
So binary cubic, quartic, etc. Binary form, in music, 
a movement based upon two subjects or divided into two 
distinct or contrasted sections. Binary logarithms, a 
system of logarithms contrived and calculated by Euler 
for facilitating musical calculations. In this system 1 is 
the logarithm of 2, 2 of 4, etc., and the modulus is 1.442- 
695 ; whereas in the kind commonly used 1 is the loga- 
rithm of 10, 2 of 100, etc., and the modulus is .43429448. 
Binary measure, in music, the measure used in com- 
mon time, in which the time of rising in beating is equal 
to the time of falling. Binary nomenclature, binary 
name, in zool. and bot., a binomial nomenclature or bino- 
mial name. See binomial. Binary number, a number 
which is composed of two units. Binary scale, the scale 
of notation used in binary arithmetic. Binary star, a 
double star whose members have a revolution around 
their common center of gravity. Binary theory of 
salts, the theory which regards salts as consisting of two 
elements, a basic or electropositive, which may be a metal 
or a radical, and an acid or electronegative element or rad- 
ical: as, potassium nitrate, K-N0 3 ; potassium acetate, 
K-C2H;,0 . 
II. n. ; pi. binaries (-riz). A 
whole composed of two ; a dyad. 
To make two, or a binary, . . . add 
but one unto one. 
Fotherby, Atheomastix, p. 307. 
binate (bi'nat), a. [< NL. bina- 
tus, < L. bini, two and two : see 
binary.} In 60*., being double or 
in couples ; having only two leaflets to a peti- 
ole ; growing in pairs. 
binaural (bin-a'ral), a. [< L. bini, two and 
two, + auris = E."eew-l.] 1. Having two ears. 
2. Pertaining to or involving the use of both 
ears ; fitted for being simultaneously used by- 
two ears : as, a binaural stethoscope, which 
has two connected tubes capped by small ear- 
pieces. 
There is even a kind of bitiaural audition, by means of 
which we judge imperfectly of direction of sound. 
Le Conte, Sight, p. 265. 
binching (bin'ching), n. [Appar. a dial, form 
of benching. Cf. dial, birik, benk = bench.} In 
coal-mining, the bed or rock on which a layer of 
coal rests. [Somersetshire, Eng.] 
bind (bind), v. ; pret. bound, pp. bound (for- 
merly bounden, now only attrib.), ppr. binding. 
[< ME. binden (pret. band, bond, later bounde, 
pi. bounden, bounde, pp. bounden), < AS. bindan 
(pret. band, pi. bundon, pp. bitnden) = OS. bin- 
dan = OFries. binda = D. binden = OHG. lin- 
tan, MHG. G. binden =Icel. binda = Sw. binda 
= Dan. binde = Goth, bindan, bind, tie, = Skt. 
\f bandh, orig. *bhandh, bind, tie. The same root 
prob. appears in L. of-fend-ix, of-fend-imentum, 
Binate Leaves. 
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the knot of a band, Gr. Tretnua (for *irev6ua, 
*$ev6pa), a rope. See btauP-, band?, bend 1 , 
bend 2 , etc., bond}, bundle, etc.] I. trans. 1. To 
make fast (to, on, or upon) with a band or bond 
of any kind. 
Thou shall bind them for a sign upon thine hand. 
Deut. vi. 8. 
Bind the chariot to the swift beast. Micali i. 13. 
2. To unite by any legal or moral tie ; attach by 
considerations of love, duty, interest, obliga- 
tion, etc.: as, bound in the bonds of matrimony ; 
bound by gratitude, duty, debt, etc. 
Distrust and grief 
Will bind to us each Western chief. 
Scott, L. of the L., ii. 30. 
3. To put in bonds or fetters ; deprive of lib- 
erty or of the use of the limbs by making fast 
physically. 
Bind him hand and foot, and take him away. 
Mat. xxii. 13. 
He took Paul's girdle, and bound his own hands and 
feet, and said, ... So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind 
the man that owneth this girdle. Acts xxi. 11. 
4. To restrain ; hold to a particular state, 
place, employment, etc. 
He bindeth the floods from overflowing. Job xxviii. 11. 
I have no official business to bind me. 
Macaulay, in Trevelyan, II. vii. 
5. To hinder or restrain (the bowels) from 
their natural operations ; make costive ; con- 
stipate. 6. To fasten around anything ; fix in 
place by girding or tying : as, to bind a cord 
round the arm. 
I, maiden, round thee, maiden, bind my belt. 
Tennyson, Holy Grail. 
7. To encircle with a band or ligature ; gird ; 
confine or restrain by girding: as, "bind up 
those tresses," Shale., K. John, iii. 4. 
A fillet binds her hair. Pope, Windsor Forest, 1. 178. 
8. To swathe or bandage; cover and swathe 
with dressings : with up. 
He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their 
wounds. Ps. clxvii. 3. 
Give me another horse, bind up my wounds. 
Skak., Rich III., v. 3. 
9. To form a border or edge on, for the pur- 
pose of strengthening or ornamenting ; edge : 
as, to bind a wheel with a tire ; to bind a gar- 
ment or a carpet. 
Her mantle rich, whose borders round 
A deep and fretted broidery bound. 
Scott, Marmion, vi. 3. 
Black cliffs and high, 
With green grass growing on the tops of them, 
Binding them round as gold a garment's hem. 
WUliam Morris, Earthly Paradise, I. 172. 
10. To tie or fasten (loose things) together 
with a band, cord, or tie ; tie up into one bun- 
dle or mass : as, to bind sheaves of grain. 1 1 . 
To fasten or secure within a cover, as a book 
or pamphlet. See bookbinding. 12. In fen- 
cing, to secure (the sword of an adversary). 
See binding, n., 3. 13. To cause to cohere; 
cement; knit; unite firmly: as, to bind the 
loose sand. 
The sooner to effect, 
And surer bind, this knot of amity, 
The Earl of Armagnac . . . 
Proffers his only daughter to your grace 
In marriage. Shak., 1 Hen. VI., v. 1. 
God has so bound society together that if one member 
suffer, all suffer. J. F. Clarke, Self-Culture, p. 60. 
Have enough oil in the colours to bind them. 
Workshop Receipts, 1st ser., p. 423. 
Binding the ink to prevent its smearing. 
Workshop Receipts, 2d ser., p. 343. 
14. To place under obligation or compulsion: 
as, all are bound to obey the laws. 
This ring I gave him, when he parted from me, 
To bind him to remember my good-will. 
Shak.,T. G. of V., iv. 4. 
'Tis true, by my father's will, I am for a short period 
bound to regard you as his substitute. 
Sheridan, School for Scandal, iii. 1. 
15. To put under legal obligation : often with 
over: as, to bind a man over to keep the peace. 
Specifically 16. To indenture as an appren- 
tice: often with out. 
Sly mother she wanted to bind me out to a blacksmith. 
Mrs. Stoice, Oldtown, p. 83. 
To bind hand and foot. See hand. To bind in, to 
inclose ; surround. 
Bound in with the triumphant sea. 
Shak., Kich. II., ii. 1. 
A costly jewel . . . bound in with diamonds. 
Shak., 2 Hen. VI., iii. 2. 
To bind up in, to cause to be wholly engrossed with ; ab- 
sorb in; connect intimately with : chiefly in the passive. 
Seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life. 
Gen. xliv. 30. 
binding 
II. intrant. 1. To cohere ; stick together. 
2. To become indurated, hard, or stiff: as, 
clay binds by heat. 3. To be obligatory or of 
force. 
Those canons or imperial constitutions which have not 
been received here do not bind. Sir M. Hale. 
4. To tie up anything; specifically, to tie up 
sheaves. 
They that reap must sheaf and bind. 
Shak., As you Like it, iii. 2. 
5. In falconry, to seize a bird in the air and 
cling to it: said of a hawk. 
bind (bind), . [< bind, v. In third sense, cf. 
liunrtte, and see tie, n. In the botanical sense, 
< ME. bynde, a climbing stem, esp. woodbine, 
ivy ; chiefly in comp. as wudebinde, woodbind. 
The word, by its use in comp., has suffered cor- 
ruption to bine, Sc. bin-, ben- : see bine 1 , woodbine, 
bearbine, etc., and the compounds of bind be- 
low.] 1. A tie or band; anything that binds. 
Specifically (a) A connecting timber in a 
ship, (b) In music, a tie, slur, or brace. 2. 
In coal-mining, indurated, argillaceous shale 
or clay, such as frequently forms the roof of 
a coal-seam: same as bend 1 , 12,. and baft, 10. 
[Eug.] 3. A unit of tale. A bind of eels is 
250. A bind of skins is 32, or of some kinds 40. 
[Eng.] 4. Bounds; limit; stint: as, I am at 
my bind. [Scotch.] 
Their bind was just a Scots pint overhead, and a tappit- 
hen to the bill, and no man ever saw them the waur o't. 
Scott, St. Ronan's Well, I. i. 
5. A climbing stem; a bine; specifically, a 
stalk of hops. See bine 1 . 
The whyle God of his grace ded growe of that soyle 
The fayrest bynde hym [Jonah) abof that ever burne wyste. 
Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), iii. 444. 
binder (bin'der), n. [< ME. bynderj, < AS. bin- 
dere, < bindan, bind: see bind, v., and -er 1 .] 1. 
A person who binds. Specifically () One 
who binds books ; a bookbinder. (6) One who 
binds sheaves. 2. Anything that binds, in any 
sense of that verb. 3. In bricklaying, a header 
which extends partly through a wall ; a bonder. 
4. In carp., a tie-beam; a binding-joist serv- 
ing as a transverse support for the bridging- 
joists above and the ceiling-joists below. 5. 
An attachment to a sewing-machine for folding 
an edge or a binding. 6. In agri.: (a) An at- 
tachment to a reaper for tying the bundles of 
grain. (6) A separate horse-power machine for 
gathering up and binding grain already cut. 
7. An arrester or stop for the shuttle of a loom. 
8. A temporary cover for loose sheets of mu- 
sic, papers, etc. 9. pi. Same as binding, 4. 
Binders' board, thick, smooth, calendered pasteboard 
used for the covers of books. 
binder-frame (bln'der-fram), n. In mach., a 
hanger sivpporting shafting, and having adjust- 
able bearings by which the position of the pul- 
leys can be regulated to suit the direction of 
the motion of the belts. 
bindery (bin'der-i), n.; pi. binderies (-iz). [< 
bind, v., + -ery.~] A place where books are 
bound. 
bindheimite (bind'hi-mit), n. [< Hindheim (a 
German chemist) + -tie 2 .] An amorphous an- 
timoniate of lead produced by the decomposi- 
tion of antimonial minerals, especially jame- 
sonite. 
binding (bin'ding),p. a. [Ppr. of bind, j>.] 1. 
Serving to bind, fasten, or connect; making 
fast. 2. Having power to bind or oblige ; obli- 
gatory: as, a binding engagement. 
Civil contracts may be held binding although made by 
lunatics. E. C. Mann, Psycho!. Med., p. 87. 
3. Astringent. 4. Causing constipation; con- 
stipating. [Cplloq.] 
binding (bin'ding), H. [Verbal n. of bind,.] 1. 
The act or action of making fast, securing, unit- 
ing, etc., in any sense of the verb bind: as, the 
binding of prisoners; wire that serves for bind- 
ing. 2. Anything that binds; a bandage; the 
cover of a book, with the sewing and accom- 
panyingwork; something that secures the edges 
of cloth or of a garment. 3. In fencing, a 
method of securing the adversary's sword, con- 
sisting in crossing it with a pressure, accom- 
panied with a spring of the wrist. 4. pi In 
ship-building, the beams, transoms, knees, wales, 
keelson, and other chief timbers used, for con- 
necting and strengthening the various parts of 
a vessel. Also called binders. 5. The condi- 
tion assumed by adhesive soils in hot dry sea- 
sons; a similar condition in the soil of flower- 
pots in which plants have been kept too long or 
too dry ; closeness, dryness, or hardness of tex- 
ture. 6. Tn Hindi., the prevention of free mo- 
