intransitive verb

1. to move with a leap or series of leaps
2. to spring back from a surface after striking it, as a ball; bounce; rebound

Etymology: MFr bondir < OFr, to leap, make a noise, orig., to echo back < LL bombitare, to buzz, hum < L bombus, a humming: see bomb

transitive verb

noun

1. a jump; leap
2. a springing back from a surface after striking it; bounce

transitive verb, intransitive verb

adjective

1. confined by or as by binding; tied
2. closely connected or related
3. certain; sure; destined bound to lose
4. under compulsion; obliged legally bound to accept
5. constipated
6. provided with a binding or attached cover, as a book
7. Informal having one's mind made up; resolved a team bound on winning
8. Linguis. designating a form, or morpheme, that never occurs alone as an independent word in “singing,” -ing is a bound form, but sing is not

adjective

1. ready to go or going; headed: often with for bound for home
2. Archaic ready; prepared

Etymology: ME boun, ready (+ -d, prob. by assoc. with bound) < ON buinn, pp. of bua, to prepare: see bondage

noun

1. a boundary; limit
2. an area near, alongside, or enclosed by a boundary

Etymology: ME bounde < OFr bunne, bodne < ML bodina, butina, boundary, boundary marker

transitive verb

1. to provide with bounds; limit; confine
2. to be a limit or boundary to
3. ☆ to name the boundaries of (a state, etc.)

intransitive verb