Bound /(bound)/

1. 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.

   He hath compassed the waters with bounds.

   On earth's remotest bounds.

   And mete the bounds of hate and love.

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.

   Phlegethon . . . Whose fiery flood the burning empire bounds.

2. To name the boundaries of; as, to bound France.

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.

   And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider.

2. To rebound, as an elastic ball.

1. To make to bound or leap; as, to bound a horse. [R.]
2. To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; as, to bound a ball on the floor. [Collog.]

1. A leap; an elastic spring; a jump.

   A bound of graceful hardihood.

2. Rebound; as, the bound of a ball.
3. Spring from one foot to the other. (Dancing)

1. imp. & p. p. of Bind.

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.]
6. Constipated; costive.

1. 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.