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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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.
    He hath compassed the waters with bounds.   --Job xxvi. 10.
    On earth's remotest bounds.   --Campbell.
    And mete the bounds of hate and love.   --Tennyson.
 To keep within bounds, not to exceed or pass beyond assigned limits; to act with propriety or discretion.
 Syn: -- See Boundary.