Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - bound

 I. adjective  Etymology: Middle English boun, from Old Norse buinn, past participle of bua to dwell, prepare; akin to Old High German buan to dwell — more at bower  Date: 13th century  1. archaic ready  2. intending to go ; going ~ for home college-~  II. noun  Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French ~e, bodne, from Medieval Latin bodina  Date: 13th century  1.  a. a limiting line ; ~ary — usually used in plural  b. something that limits or restrains beyond the ~s of decency  2. usually plural  a. borderland  b. the land within certain ~s  3. a number greater than or equal to every number in a set (as the range of a function); also a number less than or equal to every number in a set  III. past and past participle of bind  IV. transitive verb  Date: 14th century  1. to set limits or ~s to ; confine  2. to form the ~ary of ; enclose  3. to name the ~aries of  V. adjective  Etymology: Middle English ~en, from past participle of binden to bind  Date: 14th century  1. placed under legal or moral restraint or obligation ; obliged duty-~  2.  a. fastened by or as if by a band ; confined desk-~  b. very likely ; sure ~ to rain soon  3. made costive ; constipated  4. of a book secured to the covers by cords, tapes, or glue  5. determined, resolved  6. held in chemical or physical combination  7. always occurring in combination with another linguistic form un- in unknown and -er in speaker are ~ forms — compare free 11d  VI. noun  Etymology: Middle French bond, from bondir to leap, from Vulgar Latin *bombitire to hum, from Latin bombus deep hollow sound — more at bomb  Date: circa 1553  1. leap, jump  2. the action of re~ing ; bounce  VII. intransitive verb  Date: 1592  1. to move by leaping  2. re~, bounce