These are the meanings of the letters BIDON when you unscramble them.
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Bind (v. t.)
To tie, or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to bind a prisoner.
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Bind (v. t.)
To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind; as, attraction binds the planets to the sun; frost binds the earth, or the streams.
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Bind (v. t.)
To cover, as with a bandage; to bandage or dress; -- sometimes with up; as, to bind up a wound.
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Bind (v. t.)
To make fast ( a thing) about or upon something, as by tying; to encircle with something; as, to bind a belt about one; to bind a compress upon a part.
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Bind (v. t.)
To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action; as, certain drugs bind the bowels.
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Bind (v. t.)
To protect or strengthen by a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.
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Bind (v. t.)
To sew or fasten together, and inclose in a cover; as, to bind a book.
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Bind (v. t.)
Fig.: To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other moral tie; as, to bind the conscience; to bind by kindness; bound by affection; commerce binds nations to each other.
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Bind (v. t.)
To bring (any one) under definite legal obligations; esp. under the obligation of a bond or covenant.
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Bind (v. t.)
To place under legal obligation to serve; to indenture; as, to bind an apprentice; -- sometimes with out; as, bound out to service.
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Bind (v. i.)
To tie; to confine by any ligature.
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Bind (v. i.)
To contract; to grow hard or stiff; to cohere or stick together in a mass; as, clay binds by heat.
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Bind (v. i.)
To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.
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Bind (v. i.)
To exert a binding or restraining influence.
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Bind (n.)
That which binds or ties.
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Bind (n.)
Any twining or climbing plant or stem, esp. a hop vine; a bine.
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Bind (n.)
Indurated clay, when much mixed with the oxide of iron.
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Bind (n.)
A ligature or tie for grouping notes.
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Bond (n.)
That which binds, ties, fastens, or confines, or by which anything is fastened or bound, as a cord, chain, etc.; a band; a ligament; a shackle or a manacle.
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Bond (n.)
The state of being bound; imprisonment; captivity, restraint.
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Bond (n.)
A binding force or influence; a cause of union; a uniting tie; as, the bonds of fellowship.
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Bond (n.)
Moral or political duty or obligation.
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Bond (n.)
A writing under seal, by which a person binds himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum on or before a future day appointed. This is a single bond. But usually a condition is added, that, if the obligor shall do a certain act, appear at a certain place, conform to certain rules, faithfully perform certain duties, or pay a certain sum of money, on or before a time specified, the obligation shall be void; otherwise it shall remain in full force. If the condition is not performed, the bond becomes forfeited, and the obligor and his heirs are liable to the payment of the whole sum.
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Bond (n.)
An instrument (of the nature of the ordinary legal bond) made by a government or a corporation for purpose of borrowing money; as, a government, city, or railway bond.
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Bond (n.)
The state of goods placed in a bonded warehouse till the duties are paid; as, merchandise in bond.
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Bond (n.)
The union or tie of the several stones or bricks forming a wall. The bricks may be arranged for this purpose in several different ways, as in English or block bond (Fig. 1), where one course consists of bricks with their ends toward the face of the wall, called headers, and the next course of bricks with their lengths parallel to the face of the wall, called stretchers; Flemish bond (Fig.2), where each course consists of headers and stretchers alternately, so laid as always to break joints; Cross bond, which differs from the English by the change of the second stretcher line so that its joints come in the middle of the first, and the same position of stretchers comes back every fifth line; Combined cross and English bond, where the inner part of the wall is laid in the one method, the outer in the other.
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Bond (n.)
A unit of chemical attraction; as, oxygen has two bonds of affinity. It is often represented in graphic formulae by a short line or dash. See Diagram of Benzene nucleus, and Valence.
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Bond (v. t.)
To place under the conditions of a bond; to mortgage; to secure the payment of the duties on (goods or merchandise) by giving a bond.
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Bond (v. t.)
To dispose in building, as the materials of a wall, so as to secure solidity.
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Bond (n.)
A vassal or serf; a slave.
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Bond (a.)
In a state of servitude or slavery; captive.