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Bound
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
imp. & p. p. of Bind.
(2):
(p. p. & a.) Restrained by a hand, rope, chain, fetters, or the like.
(3):
(v. t.) To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; as, to bound a ball on the floor.
(4):
(n.) A leap; an elastic spring; a jump.
(5):
(n.) Spring from one foot to the other.
(6):
(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.
(7):
(p. p. & a.) Resolved; as, I am bound to do it.
(8):
(v. t.) To make to bound or leap; as, to bound a horse.
(9):
(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.
(10):
(p. p. & a.) Inclosed in a binding or cover; as, a bound volume.
(11):
(p. p. & a.) Constipated; costive.
(12):
(v. i.) To rebound, as an elastic ball.
(13):
(imp.) of Bind
(14):
(p. p.) of Bind
(15):
(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.
(16):
(v. t.) To name the boundaries of; as, to bound France.
(17):
(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.
(18):
(p. p. & a.) Under legal or moral restraint or obligation.
(19):
(p. p. & a.) Constrained or compelled; destined; certain; - followed by the infinitive; as, he is bound to succeed; he is bound to fail.
(20):
(n.) Rebound; as, the bound of a ball.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Bound'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/b/bound.html. 1828.
