Bound :: Bound (n.) 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..
Bound :: Bound (v. t.) 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..
Bound :: Bound (v. t.) To name the boundaries of; as, to bound France..
Bound :: Bound (v. i.) 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..
Bound :: Bound (v. i.) To rebound, as an elastic ball..
Bound :: Bound (v. t.) To make to bound or leap; as, to bound a horse..
Bound :: Bound (v. t.) To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; as, to bound a ball on the floor..
Bound :: Bound (n.) A leap; an elastic spring; a jump.
Bound :: Bound (n.) Rebound; as, the bound of a ball..
Bound :: Bound (n.) Spring from one foot to the other.
Bound :: Bound (p. p. & a.) Restrained by a hand, rope, chain, fetters, or the like..
Bound :: Bound (p. p. & a.) Inclosed in a binding or cover; as, a bound volume..
Bound :: Bound (p. p. & a.) Under legal or moral restraint or obligation.
Bound :: Bound (p. p. & a.) Constrained or compelled; destined; certain; -- followed by the infinitive; as, he is bound to succeed; he is bound to fail..
Bound :: Bound (p. p. & a.) Resolved; as, I am bound to do it..
Bound :: 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..
Boundary :: Boundary (n.) That which indicates or fixes a limit or extent, or marks a bound, as of a territory; a bounding or separating line; a real or imaginary limit..