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<p><b>2.</b> <def>Excessive; big.</def> "A <i>bouncing</i> reckoning."

<i>B. & Fl.</i>

<cs><col>Bouncing Bet</col> <fld>(Bot.)</fld>, <cd>the common soapwort (<spn>Saponaria officinalis</spn>).</cd></cs>

<i>Harper's Mag.</i>

<h1>Bouncingly</h1> <Xpage=170>

<hw>Boun"cing*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>With a bounce.</def>

<h1>Bound</h1> <Xpage=170>

<hw>Bound</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>bounde</ets>, <ets>bunne</ets>, OF. <ets>bonne</ets>, <ets>bonde</ets>, <ets>bodne</ets>, F. <ets>borne</ets>, fr. LL. <ets>bodina</ets>, <ets>bodena</ets>, <ets>bonna</ets>; prob. of Celtic origin; cf. Arm. <ets>bonn</ets> boundary, limit, and <ets>boden</ets>, <ets>bod</ets>, a tuft or cluster of trees, by which a boundary or limit could be marked. Cf. <er>Bourne</er>.]</ety> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>He hath compassed the waters with <b>bounds</b>. <i>Job xxvi. 10.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>On earth's remotest <b>bounds</b>. <i>Campbell.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>And mete the <b>bounds</b> of hate and love. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>To keep within bounds</col>, <cd>not to exceed or pass beyond assigned limits; to act with propriety or discretion</cd>.</cs>

<syn>Syn. -- See <er>Boundary</er>.</syn>

<h1>Bound</h1> <Xpage=170>

<hw>Bound</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Bounded</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Bounding</er>.]</wordforms>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>Where full measure only <b>bounds</b> excess. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Phlegethon . . . Whose fiery flood the burning empire <b>bounds</b>. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To name the boundaries of; <as>as, to <ex>bound</ex> France</as>.</def>

<h1>Bound</h1> <Xpage=170>

<hw>Bound</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>bondir</ets> to leap, OF. <ets>bondir</ets>, <ets>bundir</ets>, to leap, resound, fr. L. <ets>bombitare</ets> to buzz, hum, fr. <ets>bombus</ets> a humming, buzzing. See <er>Bomb</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To move with a sudden spring or leap, or with a succession of springs or leaps; as the beast <i>bounded</i> from his den; the herd <i>bounded</i> across the plain.</def>

<blockquote>Before his lord the ready spaniel <b>bounds</b>. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>And the waves <b>bound</b> beneath me as a steed That knows his rider. <i>Byron.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To rebound, as an elastic ball.</def>

<h1>Bound</h1> <Xpage=170>

<hw>Bound</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To make to bound or leap; <as>as, to bound a horse</as>.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>