Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Bound \Bound\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bounded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Bounding}.]
   1. 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.

            Where full measure only bounds excess. --Milton.

            Phlegethon . . . Whose fiery flood the burning
            empire bounds.                        --Dryden.

   2. To name the boundaries of; as, to bound France.

Bounding \Bound"ing\, a.
   Moving with a bound or bounds.

         The bounding pulse, the languid limb.    --Montgomery.