Bound
- p. p. of Bind
- imp. of Bind
- v. t. To name the boundaries of; as, to bound France.
- 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.
- v. i. To rebound, as an elastic ball.
- 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.
- n. A leap; an elastic spring; a jump.
- n. Rebound; as, the bound of a ball.
- n. Spring from one foot to the other.
- 1p. p. 1 of Bind
- 1imp. 1 of Bind
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.