transitive. To bind up.

To tie (a number of things) so as to hold them together, or to form them into a single mass; esp. to tie up (sheaves of corn).

to knit to, bind up.

To confine or enclose (the body, or some part of it) by something fastened closely round; to bind or tie up; to gird; to fasten up (the hair) with…

transitive. In passive. figurative. To be bound up, embodied, or fixed (in). Cf. belouk, v. 3.

to knit up. transitive. To tie up; to fasten up; to string up, to hang; to compose or repair by knitting. literal and figurative.

†To bind or wrap up (obsolete); see also 16 (quot. 1853 at sense 16a).

transitive. To bind up.

transitive. To tie or pin (a person, the arms, etc.) (down) to something; to bind (the arms) together.

transitive. To bind; to tie up. Obsolete.

transitive. To bind with or as with a fillet. †To bind or tie up, to confine or swathe with a bandage (obsolete). Also Surgery. To bandage (a limb).

to bind together

transitive. To bind with a ligature or bandage; spec. in Surgery to tie up (an artery, etc.).