a. Continuing; lasting. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. Permanently. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A foreboding. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
adj.
p. a. Agreeing; in agreement or harmony; harmonious. “This according voice of national wisdom.” Burke. “Mind and soul according well.” Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]
According to him, every person was to be bought. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
Our zeal should be according to knowledge. Sprat. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ According to has been called a prepositional phrase, but strictly speaking, according is a participle in the sense of agreeing, acceding, and to alone is the preposition. [ 1913 Webster ]
According as,
Is all things well,
According as I gave directions? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
The land which the Lord will give you according as he hath promised. Ex. xii. 25. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. Accordingly; correspondingly. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv.
Behold, and so proceed accordingly. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Rising; moving upward;
Ascending latitude (Astron.),
Ascending line (Geneol.),
Ascending node
Ascending series. (Math.)
Ascending signs,
a. Of a nature to astound; astonishing; amazing;
n. (Computers) The execution of low priority programs while higher priority programs are not using the processing system.
a. Slipping back; falling back into sin or error; sinning. [ 1913 Webster ]
Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord. Jer. iii. 14. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The act of one who backslides; abandonment of faith or duty. [ 1913 Webster ]
Our backslidings are many. Jer. xiv. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A strip or stripe of a contrasting color or material.
A plane used for cutting out grooves and inlaying strings and bands in straight and circular work. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
n. [ AS. bedding, beding. See Bed. ]
a. Obliged; beholden. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
I was much bound and beholding to the right reverend father. Robynson (More's Utopia). [ 1913 Webster ]
So much hath Oxford been beholding to her nephews, or sister's children. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The act of seeing; sight; also, that which is beheld. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
n., The state of being obliged or beholden. [ Obs. ] Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The marking of the clothes with stripes or horizontal bands. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
n. Residence; habitation. Rowe. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. That binds; obligatory. [ 1913 Webster ]
Binding beam (Arch.),
Binding joist (Arch.),
n.
adv. So as to bind. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The condition or property of being binding; obligatory quality. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]
. (Elec.) A metallic post attached to electrical apparatus for convenience in making connections. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
. A set screw used to bind parts together, esp. one for making a connection in an electrical circuit. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
n. Birdcatching or fowling. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Birding piece,
n.
A kind of sausage made of blood, suet, etc., thickened with meal. [ 1913 Webster ]
And fat black puddings, -- proper food,
For warriors that delight in blood. Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]
(Scots Law) A mode of tenure by the payment of a small duty in white rent (silver) or otherwise. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Emitting, or appearing to emit, blood or sap, etc.; also, expressing anguish or compassion. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A running or issuing of blood, as from the nose or a wound; a hemorrhage; the operation of letting blood, as in surgery; a drawing or running of sap from a tree or plant. [ 1913 Webster ]
. (Law) See Blanch holding. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
a. Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding; obscuring;
n. A thin coating of sand and fine gravel over a newly paved road. See Blind, v. t., 4. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Bloodshed. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
Both slain at one time, as they attempted the boarding of a frigate. Sir F. Drake. [ 1913 Webster ]
Boarding house,
Boarding nettings (Naut.),
Boarding pike (Naut.),
Boarding school,
n. a private house that provides accommodations and meals for paying guests.
a. Foreshowing; presaging; ominous. --
n. A prognostic; an omen; a foreboding. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. exercise that builds muscles through tension.
n. the process of fastening firmly together.
n. The art, process, or business of binding books. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Moving with a bound or bounds. [ 1913 Webster ]
The bounding pulse, the languid limb. Montgomery. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
A gentleman enveloped in mustachios, whiskers, fur collars, and braiding. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]