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  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Bounding  \Bound"ing\,  a. 
  Moving  with  a  bound  or  bounds. 
 
  The  bounding  pulse,  the  languid  limb.  --Montgomery. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  bounding 
  adj  :  running  with  a  series  of  small  leaps;  "a  hillside  full  of 
  bounding  goats" 




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