Dictionary entry

Bound (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.