Definition for RE-BOUND'

RE-BOUND', v.i. [Fr. rebondir; re and bondir.]

To spring back; to start back; to be reverberated by an elastic power resisting force or impulse impressed; as, a rebounding echo. Bodies absolutely hard, or so soft as to be void of elasticity will not rebound from one another. – Newton.

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