Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Bound \Bound\, p. p. & a.
   1. Restrained by a hand, rope, chain, fetters, or the like.

   2. Inclosed in a binding or cover; as, a bound volume.

   3. Under legal or moral restraint or obligation.

   4. Constrained or compelled; destined; certain; -- followed
      by the infinitive; as, he is bound to succeed; he is bound
      to fail.

   5. Resolved; as, I am bound to do it. [Collog. U. S.]

   6. Constipated; costive.

   Note: Used also in composition; as, icebound, windbound,
         hidebound, etc.

   {Bound bailiff} (Eng. Law), a sheriff's officer who serves
      writs, makes arrests, etc. The sheriff being answerable
      for the bailiff's misdemeanors, the bailiff is usually
      under bond for the faithful discharge of his trust.

   {Bound up in}, entirely devoted to; inseparable from.