bound

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To leap forward or upward; spring.
2. v. To progress by forward leaps or springs.
3. v. To bounce; rebound.
4. n. A leap; a jump.
5. n. A rebound; a bounce.
6. n. A boundary; a limit. Often used in the plural: Our joy knew no bounds. Your remarks exceed the bounds of reason.
7. n. The territory on, within, or near limiting lines: the bounds of the kingdom.
8. v. To set a limit to; confine: a high wall that bounded the prison yard; lives that were bounded by poverty.
9. v. To constitute the boundary or limit of: a city park that was bounded by busy streets.
10. v. To identify the boundaries of; demarcate.
11. v. To border on another place, state, or country.
12. v. Past tense and past participle of bind.
13. adj. Confined by bonds; tied: bound and gagged hostages.
14. adj. Being under legal or moral obligation: bound by my promise.
15. adj. Equipped with a cover or binding: bound volumes.
16. adj. Predetermined; certain: We're bound to be late.
17. adj. Determined; resolved: She's bound to be mayor.
18. adj. Linguistics Being a form, especially a morpheme, that cannot stand as an independent word, such as a prefix or suffix.
19. adj. Constipated.
20. adj. Headed or intending to head in a specified direction: commuters bound for home; a south-bound train.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. That which limits or circumscribes; an external or limiting line; hence, that which keeps in or restrains; limit; confine: as, the love of money knows no bounds.
2. n. plural The territory included within boundarylines; domain.
3. n. A limited portion or piece of land, enjoyed by the owner of it in respect of tin only, and by virtue of an ancient prescription or liberty for encouragement to the tinners.
4. To confine within fixed limits; restrain by limitation.
5. To serve as a limit to; constitute the extent of; restrain in amount, degree, etc.: as, to bound our wishes by our means.
6. To form or constitute the boundary of; serve as a bound or limit to: as, the Pacific ocean bounds the United States on the west.
7. To name the boundaries of: as, to bound the State of New York. Synonyms To circumscribe, restrict, hem in, border.
8. To leap; jump; spring; move by leaps.
9. To rebound, as an elastic ball. Synonyms Leap, Spring, etc. See skip, v. i.
10. To cause to leap.
11. To cause to rebound: as, to bound a ball.
12. n. A leap onward or upward; a jump; a rebound.
13. n. In ordnance, the path of a shot between two grazes: generally applied to the horizontal distance passed over by the shot between the points of impact.
14. Made fast by a band, tie, or bond; specifically, in fetters or chains; in the condition of a prisoner.
15. Hence Made fast by other than physical bonds.
16. Confined; restrained; restricted; held firmly.
17. Hence Obliged by moral, legal, or compellable ties; under obligation or compulsion.
18. Certain; sure.
19. Determined; resolved: as, he is bound to do it.
20. In entomology, attached by the posterior extremity to a perpendicular object, and supported in an upright position against it, by a silken thread passing across the thorax, as the chrysalides of certain Lepidoptera.
21. Constipated in the bowels; costive.
22. Pregnant: said of a woman.
23. Provided with binding or a cover: said of books, etc.: as, bound volumes can be obtained in exchange for separate parts; bound in leather.
24. Having all the affections centered in; entirely devoted to.
25. Prepared; ready; hence, going or intending to go; destined: with to or for: as, I am bound for London; the ship is bound for the Mediterranean.
26. To lead; go.

Wiktionary

1. v. Simple past tense and past participle of bind.
2. adj. with infinitive Obliged (to).
3. adj. with infinitive Very likely (to).
4. adj. linguistics That cannot stand alone as a free word.
5. adj. mathematics, logic, of a variable Constrained by a quantifier.
6. n. often used in plural A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory.
7. n. mathematics a value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values
8. v. To surround a territory or other geographical entity.
9. v. mathematics To be the boundary of.
10. n. A sizeable jump, great leap.
11. v. To leap, move by jumping.
12. adj. obsolete ready, prepared.
13. adj. ready, able to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of).

GNU Webster's 1913

1. 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.
2. v. 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.
3. v. To name the boundaries of.
4. v. 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.
5. v. To rebound, as an elastic ball.
6. v. rare To make to bound or leap.
7. v. Collog. To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound.
8. n. A leap; an elastic spring; a jump.
9. n. Rebound.
10. n. (Dancing) Spring from one foot to the other.
11. imp. & p. p. of bind.
12. Restrained by a hand, rope, chain, fetters, or the like.
13. Inclosed in a binding or cover.
14. Under legal or moral restraint or obligation.
15. Constrained or compelled; destined; certain; -- followed by the infinitive.
16. Collog. U. S. Resolved.
17. Constipated; costive.
18. adj. Ready or intending to go; on the way toward; going; -- with to or for, or with an adverb of motion.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a line determining the limits of an area
2. adj. confined in the bowels
3. v. place limits on (extent or access)
4. v. move forward by leaps and bounds
5. v. form the boundary of; be contiguous to
6. adj. held with another element, substance or material in chemical or physical union
7. adj. secured with a cover or binding; often used as a combining form
8. adj. bound by contract
9. adj. headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in `college-bound students'
10. n. the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something
11. n. a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
12. n. the greatest possible degree of something
13. v. spring back; spring away from an impact
14. adj. confined by bonds
15. adj. (usually followed by `to') governed by fate
16. adj. bound by an oath
17. adj. covered or wrapped with a bandage