1. [n]  a light springing movement upwards or forwards
2. [n]  the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something
3. [n]  a line determining the limits of an area
4. [adj]  (chemistry and physics) held with another element, substance or material in chemical or physical union
5. [adj]  confined by bonds; "bound and gagged hostages"
6. [adj]  secured with a cover or binding; often used as a combining form; "bound volumes"; "leather-bound volumes"
7. [adj]  bound by contract
8. [adj]  being under moral or legal obligation; "felt bound by his promise"
9. [adj]  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"
10. [adj]  covered or wrapped with a bandage; "the bandaged wound on the back of his head"; "an injury bound in fresh gauze"
11. [adj]  bound by an oath; "a bound official"
12. [v]  place limits on (extent or access); "restrict the use of this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your friends"
13. [v]  spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide"
14. [v]  move forward by leaps and bounds; "The horse bounded across the meadow"; "The child leapt across the puddle"; "Can you jump over the fence?"
15. [v]  form the boundary of; be contiguous to

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1. \Bound\, n. [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 cluster of trees, by which a boundary or limit could be
   marked. Cf. {Bourne}.]
   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. --Job xxvi.
                                                  10.
         On earth's remotest bounds.              --Campbell.
         And mete the bounds of hate and love.    --Tennyson.
   {To keep within bounds}, not to exceed or pass beyond
      assigned limits; to act with propriety or discretion.
   Syn: See {Boundary}.
   

2. \Bound\, v. t. [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. --Milton.
            Phlegethon . . . Whose fiery flood the burning
            empire bounds.                        --Dryden.
   2. To name the boundaries of; as, to bound France.
   

3. \Bound\, v. i. [F. bondir to leap, OF. bondir, bundir, to
   leap, resound, fr. L. bombitare to buzz, hum, fr. bombus a
   humming, buzzing. See {Bomb}.]
   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. --Pope.
            And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows
            his rider.                            --Byron.
   2. To rebound, as an elastic ball.
   

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

5. \Bound\, n.
   1. A leap; an elastic spring; a jump.
            A bound of graceful hardihood.        --Wordsworth.
   2. Rebound; as, the bound of a ball. --Johnson.
   3. (Dancing) Spring from one foot to the other.
   

6. \Bound\,
   imp. & p. p. of {Bind}.
   

7. \Bound\, p. p. & a.
   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.
   Note: Used also in composition; as, icebound, windbound,
         hidebound, etc.
   {Bound bailiff} (Eng. Law), a sheriff's officer who serves
      writs, makes arrests, etc. The sheriff being answerable
      for the bailiff's misdemeanors, the bailiff is usually
      under bond for the faithful discharge of his trust.
   {Bound up in}, entirely devoted to; inseparable from.
   

8. \Bound\, a. [Past p. of OE. bounen to prepare, fr. boun
   ready, prepared, fr. Icel. b[=u]inn, p. p. of b[=u]a to
   dwell, prepare; akin to E. boor and bower. See {Bond}, a.,
   and cf. {Busk}, 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. ``The mariner bound homeward.''
   --Cowper.