| Bond: English to English |
| Bond (a.) In a state of servitude or slavery; captive. |
| Bond (n.) A binding force or influence; a cause of union; a uniting tie; as, the bonds of fellowship. |
| 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. |
| Bond (n.) A vassal or serf; a slave. |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| Bond (n.) Moral or political duty or obligation. |
| 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. |
| Bond (n.) The state of being bound; imprisonment; captivity, restraint. |
| Bond (n.) The state of goods placed in a bonded warehouse till the duties are paid; as, merchandise in bond. |
| 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, |
| Bond (v. t.) To dispose in building, as the materials of a wall, so as to secure solidity. |
| 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. |