bound

bound has 37 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.

Definitions

• imp.. of Bind
• p. p.. of Bind
• 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.
• v. t.. 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.
• v. t.. To name the boundaries of; as, to bound France.
• v. i.. 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.
• v. i.. To rebound, as an elastic ball.
• v. t.. To make to bound or leap; as, to bound a horse.
• v. t.. To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; as, to bound a ball on the floor.
• n.. A leap; an elastic spring; a jump.
• n.. Rebound; as, the bound of a ball.
• n.. Spring from one foot to the other.