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Having only the back and corners in leather, as a book.

Having the skin adhering so closely to the ribs and back as not to be easily loosened or raised; -- said of an animal.

Kept at home.

Having a dry and contracted hoof, which occasions pain and lameness.

Totally surrounded with ice, so as to be incapable of advancing; as, an icebound vessel; also, surrounded by or fringed with ice so as to hinder easy access; as, an icebound coast.

To inclose in limits; to shut in. [Obs.] Shak.

Bound as with iron; rugged; as, an ironbound coast.

Outward bound. Dryden.

The farthest or exterior bounds; extreme limits; boundaries. Spenser.

To be exceedingly plenty or superabundant. Pope.

Bounteous to excess.

to be sent back or reverberated by elastic force on collision with another body; as, a rebounding echo. Bodies which are absolutely hard, or so soft as to be void of elasticity, will not rebound from one another. Sir I. Newton.

Bounded by the sea.

Having the skin adhering closely and rigidly to the flesh; hidebound. Skinbound disease. (Med.) See Sclerema neonatorum, under Sclerema.

Enveloped in, or confined by, snow. Whittier.

Bound by, or as by, a spell.

To be very abundant or exuberant; to be more than sufficient; as, the country superabounds with corn.

To give back echoes; to reëcho. [Obs.] Chapman.

imp. & p. p. of Unbind.

Infinitely. [Obs.] I am . . . unboundably beholding to you. J. Webster (1607).