BOUND

I. adjective see: bower Date: 13th century ready , intending to go ; going , II. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French ~e, bodne, from Medieval Latin bodina Date: 13th century 1. a limiting line ; ~ary , something that limits or restrains , 2. usually plural borderland , the land within certain ~s, a number greater than or equal to every number in a set (as the range of a function), see: bind IV. transitive verb Date: 14th century to set limits or ~s to ; confine , to form the ~ary of ; enclose , to name the ~aries of, V. adjective Etymology: Middle English ~en, from past participle of binden to bind Date: 14th century placed under legal or moral restraint or obligation ; obliged , 2. fastened by or as if by a band ; confined , very likely ; sure , made costive ; constipated , secured to the covers by cords, tapes, or glue, determined , resolved, held in chemical or physical combination, always occurring in combination with another linguistic form , VI. noun see: bomb Date: circa 1553 leap , jump , the action of re~ing ; bounce , VII. intransitive verb Date: 1592 to move by leaping, re~ , bounce