Bound

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·- imp. & ·p.p. of Bind.

II. Bound ·Impf of Bind.

III. Bound ·p.p. of Bind.

IV. Bound ·vi To rebound, as an elastic ball.

V. Bound ·noun Rebound; as, the bound of a ball.

VI. Bound ·noun A leap; an elastic spring; a jump.

VII. Bound ·noun Spring from one foot to the other.

VIII. Bound ·p.p. & ·adj Constipated; costive.

IX. Bound ·vt To make to bound or leap; as, to bound a horse.

X. Bound ·vt To name the boundaries of; as, to bound France.

XI. Bound ·p.p. & ·adj Resolved; as, I am bound to do it.

XII. Bound ·p.p. & ·adj Under legal or moral restraint or obligation.

XIII. Bound ·p.p. & ·adj Inclosed in a binding or cover; as, a bound volume.

XIV. Bound ·p.p. & ·adj Restrained by a hand, rope, chain, fetters, or the like.

XV. Bound ·vt To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; as, to bound a ball on the floor.

XVI. Bound ·p.p. & ·adj Constrained or compelled; destined; certain;

— followed by the infinitive; as, he is bound to succeed; he is bound to fail.

XVII. Bound ·v Ready or intending to go; on the way toward; going;

— with to or for, or with an adverb of motion; as, a ship is bound to Cadiz, or for Cadiz.

XVIII. Bound ·vi 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.

XIX. Bound ·noun The external or limiting line, either real or imaginary, of any object or space; that which limits or restrains, or within which something is limited or restrained; limit; confine; extent; boundary.

XX. Bound ·vt 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.

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