To fpring; to make a fufiden leap, a fudden explofion.— 
High non fen fe is like beer in a bottle, which has, in reali¬ 
ty, 0 no ftrengt,!i and fpir-it, but frets, and flies, and .bounces, 
apd imitates the paflions of a much nobler liquor. Addifon. 
—To make a fudden noife.—Juft as I was putting out my 
light, another bounces as hard as he can knock. Swift. —To 
boaft ; to bully : a fenfe only ufed in familiar fpeech. To 
be bold, or ftrong : 
Forfooth the bouncing Amazon, 
Your bufkin’d ml ft refs, and your warrior love, 
To Thefus muft be wedded. Skakefpeare. 
BOUNCE, f A ftrong fudden blow : 
The bounce burft o-pe the door; the fcornful fair 
Relentlefs look’d. Dryden. 
A fudden crack or noife : 
What cannoneer begot this lufty blood ? 
He fpeaks plain cannon fire, and fmoke, and bounce ; 
He gives the baftinado with his tongue. Shahejpcare. 
A boaft ; a threat : in low language. 
BOUNCE, /. in ichthyology, the Englifti name of a fpe- 
cies of fqualus. See Sqjjalus. 
BOUN'CER,/ Abcafter; a bully ; an empty threa- 
tener : in colloquial fpeech. 
BOUND,/. [fromfoW.] A limit; a boundary; that 
by which any thing is terminated.—Thofe vaft Scythian 
regions were feparated by the natural bounds of rivers, lakes, 
mountains, woods, or marfties. Temple. 
Illimitable ocean 1 without bound, 
Without dimenfion ; where length, breadth, and height, 
And time, and place, are loft. Milton. 
A limit by which any excurfion is reftrained. — Any bounds 
made with body, even adamantine walls, are far from put¬ 
ting a ftop to the mind, in its progrefs in fpace. Locke. 
BOUND,/! [from to bound, v. «.] A leap ; a jump ; a 
fpring : 
Do but note a wild and wanton herd. 
Or race of youthful and unhandled colts, 
Fetching mad bounds, bellowing, and neighing loud. 
Skakefpeare. 
A rebound ; the leap of fomething flying back by the 
force of the blow.—Thefe inward difgufts are but the firft: 
bound of this ball of contention. Decay of Piety. 
To BOUND, v. a. To limit; to terminate. To reftrain; 
to confine : 
Take but degree away, 
The bounded waters 
Would lift their bofoms higher than the fliores, 
And make a fop of all this folid globe. Skakefpeare. 
Sometimes with in : 
My mother’s blood 
Runs on the dexter cheek, and this fmifter 
Bound's in my fire’s. Skakefpeare. 
To BOUND, v.n. [bondir , Fr.] To jump ; to fpring; 
to move forward by leaps : 
Before his lord the ready fpaniel bounds ; 
Panting with hope, he tries the furrow’d grounds. Pope. 
To rebound ; to fly back by repercuflion : 
Mark then a bounding valour in our Englifti, 
That being dead, like to the bullets grazing, 
Breaks out into a fecond courfe of mifehief. Skakefpeare. 
To BOUND, v. a. To make to bound.—IT I might buf¬ 
fet for my love, or bound my horfe for her favours, I would 
lay on like a butcher. Skakefpeare. 
BOUND, preterite and participle pafive of bind : 
This is Antonio, 
To whom I am fo infinitely bound. — 
—You fhould in all fenfe be much bound to him ; 
For, as I hear, he was much bound for you. Skakcfp, 
B O U 
BOUND, adf [a word of doubtful etymology.] Defi, 
fined ; intending to come to any place.—To be bound far 
a port one defires extremely, and fail to it with a fair gale, 
is very pleafant. Temple. 
Willing we fought your fhores, and, hither bound, 
The port fo long defir’d at length we found. Dryden. 
BOUND-BAILIFFS. See Bailiff. 
BOUND-HEDGE,/! A fpecies of fortification in fn- 
dia, confiding of a broad ftrong belt of planting, chiefly 
of tl-.e bamboo-tree, the prickly pear, and fuch other 
trees and fhrubs as form the clofeft fence. Mod of the 
forts and villages are furrounded with fuch a hedge ; and 
the large forts have a bound-hedge that inclofes a circuit 
of feveral miles, as a place of refuge to the inhabitants of 
the adjoining country againft the incurfions of an enemy. 
BOUN'DARY,/! Limit; bound.—Senfation and re-' 
fleCtion are the boundaries of our thoughts ; beyond which 
the mind, whatever efforts it would make, is not able to 
advance. Locke. 
BOUN'DEN, part. paff. of bind. Not now much in ufe : 
Hereafter, in a better world than this, 
I (hall defire more love and knowledge of you— 
—I reft much bounden to you : fare you well. Shakefp, 
BOUND'ING-STONE,/! A done to play with : 
A feeptre’s but a play-thing, and a globe 
A'bigger boundingflone. Dryden. 
BOUND'LESS, adf. Unlimited ; unconfined ; irnmea- 
furable; illimitable: 
Beyond the infinite and boundlefs reach 
Of mercy, if thou didft this deed of death, 
Art thou damn’d, Hubert. Skakefpeare. 
BOUND'LESSNESS,/. Exemption from limits.—God 
has corrected the boundleffnefs of his voluptuous defires, by 
ftinting his capacities. South. 
BOUN'TEOUS, adf Liberal; kind ; generous ; muni¬ 
ficent ; beneficent: a word ufed chiefly in poetry for boun¬ 
tiful : 
Her foul abhorring avarice, 
Bounteous ; but almoft bounteous to a vice. Dryden. 
BOUN'TEOUSLY, adv. Liberally; generoufly; largely-. 
BOUN'TEOUSNESS,/! Munificence; liberality; kind- 
nefs.—He filleth all things living with bountcoufnefs. Pfalms, 
BOUN'TTFUL, adj. Liberal; generous; munificent. 
—God, the bountiful author of our being. Locke. —It has 
of before the thing given, and to before the perfon receiv¬ 
ing.—Our king fpares nothing, to give them the fhare of 
that felicity, of which he is fo bountiful to his kingdom. 
Dryden. 
BOUN'TIFULLY, adv. Liberally; in a bountiful man¬ 
ner ; largely.—It is affirmed, that it never raineth in 
Egypt; the river bountifully requiting it in its innundation. 
Brown. 
BOUN'TIFULNESS,/! The quality of being bounti¬ 
ful ; generolity.—Enriched to all bountifulnefs. 2 Corinth. 
BOUN'TIHE AD, or Bountihood,/! Goodnefs; vir¬ 
tue. It is is now wholly out of ufe: 
How fliall frail pen, witli fear difparaged, 
Conceive fuch fovereign glory, and great bountihood. Spcnf. 
BOUN'TY,/! \bonte, Fr.] Generofity; liberality; mu¬ 
nificence. It feems diftinguiffied from charity, as a prefent 
from an alms ; being ufed when perfons, not abfolutely 
neceffitous, receive gifts ; or when gifts are given by great 
perfons.—Tell a mifer of bounty to a friend, or mercy ta 
the poor, and he will not underftand it. South. 
BOUN'TY,/ in commerce, a premium paid by govern¬ 
ment to the exporters of certain Britilh commodities, as 
failcloth, gold and filver lace, filk ftockings, fifh, corn* 
&c. The happy influence which bounties have on trade 
and manufactures is well known : nor can there be a more 
convincing proof of the good intentions of the government 
under which we live, than the great care it has taken to 
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