These are the meanings of the letters NBOUD when you unscramble them.
- Bound ()
imp. & p. p. of Bind.
- Bound (imp.)
of Bind
- Bound (n.)
A leap; an elastic spring; a jump.
- Bound (n.)
Rebound; as, the bound of a ball.
- Bound (n.)
Spring from one foot to the other.
- Bound (n.)
The external or limiting line, either real or imaginary, of any object or space; that which limits or restrains, or within which something is limited or restrained; limit; confine; extent; boundary.
- Bound (p. p.)
of Bind
- Bound (p. p. & a.)
Constipated; costive.
- Bound (p. p. & a.)
Constrained or compelled; destined; certain; -- followed by the infinitive; as, he is bound to succeed; he is bound to fail.
- Bound (p. p. & a.)
Inclosed in a binding or cover; as, a bound volume.
- Bound (p. p. & a.)
Resolved; as, I am bound to do it.
- Bound (p. p. & a.)
Restrained by a hand, rope, chain, fetters, or the like.
- Bound (p. p. & a.)
Under legal or moral restraint or obligation.
- Bound (v.)
Ready or intending to go; on the way toward; going; -- with to or for, or with an adverb of motion; as, a ship is bound to Cadiz, or for Cadiz.
- Bound (v. i.)
To move with a sudden spring or leap, or with a succession of springs or leaps; as the beast bounded from his den; the herd bounded across the plain.
- Bound (v. i.)
To rebound, as an elastic ball.
- Bound (v. t.)
To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; as, to bound a ball on the floor.
- Bound (v. t.)
To limit; to terminate; to fix the furthest point of extension of; -- said of natural or of moral objects; to lie along, or form, a boundary of; to inclose; to circumscribe; to restrain; to confine.
- Bound (v. t.)
To make to bound or leap; as, to bound a horse.
- Bound (v. t.)
To name the boundaries of; as, to bound France.