bound

adj

Etymology: From Middle English bownde, alternation (with -d partly for euphonic effect and partly by association with Etymology 1 above) of Middle English boun, from Old Norse búinn, past participle of búa (“to prepare”).

1. Ready, prepared.

   “This certain,—that a band of war / Has for two days been ready boune, / At prompt command to march from Doune […].”

2. Ready to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of).

   “Which way are you bound? —I'm already homeward bound.”

   “Is that message bound for me?”

3. Very likely (to), certain to

   “They were bound to come into conflict eventually.”

   “When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.”

name

1. A surname.

noun

Etymology: From Middle English *bounden (attested as bounten), from French bondir (“leap", "bound", originally "make a loud resounding noise”); perhaps from Late Latin bombitāre (“hum, buzz”), frequentative verb, from Latin bombus (“a humming or buzzing”).

1. A sizeable jump, great leap.

   “The deer crossed the stream in a single bound.”

2. A spring from one foot to the other in dancing.
3. A bounce; a rebound.

   “Balzo, a bound of a ball”

verb

Etymology: From Middle English *bounden (attested as bounten), from French bondir (“leap", "bound", originally "make a loud resounding noise”); perhaps from Late Latin bombitāre (“hum, buzz”), frequentative verb, from Latin bombus (“a humming or buzzing”).

1. To leap, move by jumping.

   “The rabbit bounded down the lane.”

   “But when I turn away, / Thou, willing me to stay, / Wooest not, nor vainly wranglest; / But, looking fixedly the while, / All my bounding heart entanglest, / In a golden-netted smile; […]”

2. To cause to leap.

   “to bound a horse”

   “[…] Or if I might buffet for my Loue, or bound my Horſe for her fauours, I could lay on like a Butcher, and fit like a Iack an Apes, neuer off.”

3. To rebound; to bounce.

   “A rubber ball bounds on the floor.”

4. To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; to bounce.

   “to bound a ball on the floor”