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A figure in the form of a crescent, bounded by two intersecting arcs of circles.

Extravagant; immoderate. "Be mad and merry." Shak. "Fetching mad bounds." Shak.

, or materials; to constitute; to form; to amount to. The heaven, the air, the earth, and boundless sea, Make but one temple for the Deity. Waller.

Bounded like a nipple; -- said of the apex of some shells.

A territorial border or frontier; a region adjacent to a boundary line; a confine; -- used chiefly in the plural, and in English history applied especially to the border land on the frontiers between England and Scotland, and England and Wales. Geneva is situated in the marches of several dominions -- France, Savoy, an…

Consisting or partaking of marl; resembling marl; abounding with marl.

A license to pass the limits of a jurisdiction, or boundary of a country, for the purpose of making reprisals. Letters of marque, Letters of marque and reprisal, a license or extraordinary commission granted by a government to a private person to fit out a privateer or armed ship to cruise at sea and make prize of the…

rished in Nuremberg and some other cities of Germany in the 15th and 16th centuries. They bound themselves to observe certain arbitrary laws of rhythm.

Abounding in mast; producing mast in abundance; as, the mastful forest; a mastful chestnut. Dryden.

Full of mast; abounding in acorns, etc.

A boundary. See Mere. [Obs.]

Extent or degree not excessive or beyong bounds; moderation; due restraint; esp. in the phrases, in measure; with measure; without or beyond measure. Hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure. Is. v. 14.

Abounding in meat.

A boundary. See Mere.

a having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes. Now, a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment,…

A boundary. Bacon.

An officer who ascertains meres or boundaries. [Eng.]

The land within the boundaries of a farm; a farmstead or farm. [Archaic.] Longfellow.

A stone designating a limit or boundary; a landmark. Bacon.

portion of the mesoderm during the differetiation of the germ layers. It constitutes the boundary of the coelum.