, not to exceed or pass beyond assigned limits; to act with propriety or discretion.

Syn. — See Boundary.

Bound
(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.

Bound
(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.

Bound
(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.]

Bound
(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.

Bound
(Bound), imp. & p. p. of Bind.

Bound
(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.]

To keep within bounds


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