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Inwardly; within the enveloping surface, or the boundary of a thing; within the body; beneath the surface.

inviolable covenant, agreement, promise, or vow. Their almighty Maker first ordained And bound them with inviolable bands. Spenser. And keep our faiths firm and inviolable. Shak.

Not resilient; not recoiling or rebounding; inelastic.

The science of figures having equal perimeters or boundaries.

Given to jokes and jesting; containing a joke, or abounding in jokes; merry; sportive; humorous. To quit their austerity and be jocose and pleasant with an adversary. Shaftesbury. All . . . jocose or comical airs should be excluded. I. Watts.

A bounding with juice; succulent. Bacon.

uscular action of the feet and legs; to project one's self through the air; to spring; to bound; to leap. Not the worst of the three but jumps twelve foot and a half by the square. Shak.

Consisting of jungles; abounding with jungles; of the nature of a jungle.

Covered, or bound round, with a kercher. [Obs.] G. Fletcher.

Abounding in rounded hills or mountains; hilly. [U.S.] Bartlett.

Consisting of, or abounding in, very minute laciniæ.

s; -- a feminine correlative of lord. "Lord or lady of high degree." Lowell. Of all these bounds, even from this line to this, . . . We make thee lady. Shak.

A mark to designate the boundary of land; any , mark or fixed object (as a marked tree, a stone, a ditch, or a heap of stones) by which the limits of a farm, a town, or other portion of territory may be known and preserved.

d dance, for two persons, being a kind of waltz, in which the woman made a high spring or bound. Shak.

An obligation; a vow. [Obs.] They bound themselves by a sacred lay and oath. Holland.

Full of leaves; abounding in leaves; as, the leafy forest. "The leafy month of June." Coleridge.

To spring or move suddenly, as by a jump or by jumps; to bound; to move swiftly. Also Fig. My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky. Wordsworth.

Abounding in ledges; consisting of a ledge or reef; as, a ledgy island.

Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable; as, the surety is liable for the debt of his principal.

Not bound by orthodox tenets or established forms in political or religious philosophy; independent in opinion; not conservative; friendly to great freedom in the constitution or administration of government; having tendency toward democratic or republican, as distinguished from monarchical or aristocratic, forms; as,…