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Syn. — See Boundary.
Bound
(Bound), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bounded; p. pr. & vb. n. Bounding.]
1. To limit; to terminate; to fix the furthest point of extension of; — said of natural or of moral objects; to lie
along, or form, a boundary of; to inclose; to circumscribe; to restrain; to confine.
Where full measure only bounds excess.
Milton.
Phlegethon . . .
Whose fiery flood the burning empire bounds.
Dryden.
2. To name the boundaries of; as, to bound France.
Bound
(Bound), v. i. [F. bondir to leap, OF. bondir, bundir, to leap, resound, fr. L. bombitare to buzz,
hum, fr. bombus a humming, buzzing. See Bomb.]
1. To move with a sudden spring or leap, or with a succession of springs or leaps; as the beast bounded
from his den; the herd bounded across the plain.
Before his lord the ready spaniel bounds.
Pope.
And the waves bound beneath me as a steed
That knows his rider.
Byron.
2. To rebound, as an elastic ball.
Bound
(Bound), v. t.
1. To make to bound or leap; as, to bound a horse. [R.] Shak.
2. To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; as, to bound a ball on the floor. [Collog.]
Bound
(Bound), n.
1. A leap; an elastic spring; a jump.
A bound of graceful hardihood.
Wordsworth.
2. Rebound; as, the bound of a ball. Johnson.
3. (Dancing) Spring from one foot to the other.
Bound
(Bound), imp. & p. p. of Bind.
Bound
(Bound), p. p. & a.
1. Restrained by a hand, rope, chain, fetters, or the like.
2. Inclosed in a binding or cover; as, a bound volume.
3. Under legal or moral restraint or obligation.
4. Constrained or compelled; destined; certain; — followed by the infinitive; as, he is bound to succeed; he
is bound to fail.
5. Resolved; as, I am bound to do it. [Collog. U. S.]
