- (p.p.) of Bind.
- (imp.) of Bind.
- (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.
- (p.p.&a.) Constipated; costive.
- (v.t.) To name the boundaries of; as, to bound France.
- (n.) A leap; an elastic spring; a jump.
- (p.p.&a.) Under legal or moral restraint or obligation.
- (p.p.&a.) Resolved; as, I am bound to do it.
- (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.
- (n.) Spring from one foot to the other.
- (n.) Rebound; as, the bound of a ball.
- (p.p.&a.) Inclosed in a binding or cover; as, a bound volume.
- (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.
- (p.p.&a.) Constrained or compelled; destined; certain; -- followed by the infinitive; as, he is bound to succeed; he is bound to fail.
- (p.p.&a.) Restrained by a hand, rope, chain, fetters or the like.
- (v.t.) To make to bound or leap; as, to bound a horse.
- (v.t.) To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; as, to bound a ball on the floor.
- imp. & p. p. of Bind.
- (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.
- (v.i.) To rebound, as an elastic ball.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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