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To be exceedingly plenty or superabundant. Pope.

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).

Having no bound or limit; as, unbounded space; an, unbounded ambition. Addison. -- Un*bound"ed*ly, adv. -- Un*bound"ed*ness, n.

Prevented by a flood from proceeding.

Kept in port or at anchor by storms; delayed by bad weather; as, a weather-bound vessel.

prevented from sailing, by a contrary wind. See Weatherbound.

Incumbered with tall, woody hedgerows.

or privilege, as to mill site, etc. (b) The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband, or child; desertion.

Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries; as, we have broils at home and enemies abroad. "Another prince . . . was living abroad." Macaulay.

The butting or boundary of land, particularly at the end; a headland. Spelman.

An agreeing to terms or proposals by which a bargain is concluded and the parties are bound; the reception or taking of a thing bought as that for which it was bought, or as that agreed to be delivered, or the taking possession as owner.

y or firm attachment; fidelity; as, to error, to a policy. His adhesion to the Tories was bounded by his approbation of their foreign policy. De Quincey.