bounding

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bounding - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Bounding \Bound"ing\, a.
     Moving with a bound or bounds.
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           The bounding pulse, the languid limb.    --Montgomery.
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  Bound \Bound\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bounded; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Bounding.]
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     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.
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              Where full measure only bounds excess. --Milton.
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              Phlegethon . . .
              Whose fiery flood the burning empire bounds.
                                                    --Dryden.
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     2. To name the boundaries of; as, to bound France.
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