Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for BOUND
BOUND, v.t.
- To limit; to terminate; to fix the furthest point of extension, whether of natural or moral objects, as of land, or empire, or of passion, desire, indulgence. Hence, to restrain or confine; as, to bound our wishes. To bound in is hardly legitimate.
- To make to bound. – Shak.
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