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1. (obsolete) Ready, prepared.Examples: "This certain,—that a band of war / Has for two days been ready boune, / At prompt command to march from Doune […]."obsolete

2. (with infinitive) Very likely (to), certain toExamples: "They were bound to come into conflict eventually."; "When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies."; "Don’t go around tonight— / Well, it’s bound to take your life: / There’s a bad moon on the rise."with-infinitive

1. (often used in plural) A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory.Examples: "I reached the northern bound of my property, took a deep breath and walked on."; "Somewhere within these bounds you may find a buried treasure."; "Wyth cry unreverent, Before the sacrament, Wythin the holy church bowndis, That of our fayth the grownd is."often

2. (mathematics) A value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values.

1. (transitive) To surround a territory or other geographical entity; to form the boundary of.Examples: "France, Portugal, Gibraltar and Andorra bound Spain."; "Kansas is bounded by Nebraska on the north, Missouri on the east, Oklahoma on the south and Colorado on the west."; "Mexico is bounded on the north by the United States of America, whose frontier is marked as follows: from the mouth of the Rio Bravo, or Rio Grande del Norte, following the course of the river to the parallel of 31° 47'; […]"transitive

2. (transitive, mathematics) To be the bound of.transitive

1. (dated) A bounce; a rebound.Examples: "Balzo, a bound of a ball"dated

1. (intransitive) To leap, move by jumping.Examples: "The rabbit bounded down the lane."; "But when I turn away, / Thou, willing me to stay, / Wooest not, nor vainly wranglest; / But, looking fixedly the while, / All my bounding heart entanglest, / In a golden-netted smile; […]"; "They make love, he hauls her to the bath, washes her, hauls her out and dries her, and twenty minutes later Mary and Magnus are bounding across the little park on the top of Döbling like the happy couple they nearly are, past the sandpits and the climbing frame that Tom is too big for, past the elephant cage where Tom kicks his football, down the hill towards the Restaurant Teheran which is their improbable pub because Magnus so adores the black and white videos of Arab romances they play for you with the sound down while you eat your couscous and drink your Kalterer."intransitive

2. (transitive) To cause to leap.Examples: "to bound a horse"; "[…] Or if I might buffet for my Loue, or bound my Horſe for her fauours, I could lay on like a Butcher, and fit like a Iack an Apes, neuer off."transitive

3. (intransitive, dated) To rebound; to bounce.Examples: "A rubber ball bounds on the floor."datedintransitive

4. (transitive, dated) To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; to bounce.Examples: "to bound a ball on the floor"datedtransitive