Bound

of Bind

of Bind

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.

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.

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.

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.

A leap; an elastic spring; a jump.

Rebound; as, the bound of a ball.

Spring from one foot to the other.

imp. & p. p. of Bind.

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.

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.

headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in ‘college-bound students’; "children bound for school"; "a flight destined for New York"

the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something