| Bound (bound) |
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| n. | (&?]) |
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| Bound |
| [OE. bounde,
bunne, OF. bonne, bonde, bodne, F.
borne, fr. LL. bodina, bodena, bonna; prob. of
Celtic origin; cf. Arm. bonn boundary, limit, and boden,
bod, a tuft or |
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.
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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.
To name the boundaries of; as, to bound
France.
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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.
To rebound, as an elastic ball.
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To make
to bound or leap; as, to bound a horse.
To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will
rebound; as, to bound a ball on the floor.
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A leap; an
elastic spring; a jump.
Rebound; as, the bound of a ball.
Spring from one foot to the
other.
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| Bound (bound) |
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| p. p. & a. | |
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| Bound |
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Restrained by a hand, rope, chain, fetters, or the like.
Inclosed in a binding or cover] as, a
bound volume.
Under legal or moral restraint or
obligation.
Constrained or compelled; destined; certain; --
followed by the infinitive; as, he is bound to succeed; he is
bound to fail.
Resolved; as, I am bound to do it.
Constipated; costive.
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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.
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