▪ I. † ˈbounding, vbl. n.1 Obs.
[f. bound v.1]
1. The action of forming or marking a limit of, or setting up a boundary to. Also with out.
| 1543 Act 35 Hen. VIII, xvii. §7 The..meting and bounding of the said fourth Part of the said Woods. 1602 Carew Cornwall 136 When a Myne is found..the first discouerer..at the foure corners of his limited proportion, diggeth vp three Turfes, and the like (if he list) on the sides, which they terme Bounding. 1614 Raleigh Hist. World ii. 272 In bounding out their proper lands. |
2. Abuttal, marching; boundary.
| 1552 Huloet, Bowndynge or buttynge of thre fieldes ioynynge together. 1703 De Foe Orig. Power People in Misc. 159 Buttings and Boundings of Land. 1750 G. Hughes Barbados 6 The buttings and boundings of several tenements near this bay. |
3. fig. A limiting, confining, or restricting.
| 1608 Hieron Wks. I. Q 99 Neither is it..any straightning or bounding of Gods Spirit. 1658 in Burton Diary (1828) III. 316 This is a bounding of our power. |
▪ II. bounding, vbl. n.2
(ˈbaʊndɪŋ)
[f. bound v.2]
A leaping or springing, esp. in an elastic way.
| 1617 Markham Caval. ii. 199 It fortifies a horse exceedingly in his boundings and hie salts. 1712 Addison Spect. No. 321 ¶6 His [Satan's] bounding over the Walls of Paradise. 1769 Falconer Dict. Marine (1789) G g iv, The bounding of a flat stone thrown horizontally into the water. 1841 Macaulay Comic Dram. Restor., Ess. (1854) II. 569/2 Amidst the bounding of champagne corks. |
▪ III. bounding, ppl. a.1
(ˈbaʊndɪŋ)
[f. bound v.1 + -ing2.]
That bounds, or forms a boundary to.
| 1593 Shakes. Lucr. 1119 A gentle flood..the bounding banks o'erflows. 1789 Burns Banks of Frith ii, Where bounding hawthorns gaily bloom. 1850 Tennyson In Mem. xvii, Thro' circles of the bounding sky. 1881 Maxwell Electr. & Magn. I. 17 The region has one bounding surface. |
† b. With on: Bordering on. Obs.
| 1597 Warner Alb. Eng., æneidos 317 A part of Thrace called Cressa, bounding on Mygdonia. 1600 Holland Livy xxvii. xxx. 691 e, A citie..bounding upon the Ocean. |
▪ IV. bounding, ppl. a.2
(ˈbaʊndɪŋ)
[f. bound v.2 + -ing2.]
1. a. That bounds, leaps, or springs. Also fig.
| a 1667 Cowley Greatness Wks. 1710 II. 746 Playing at Nuts and Bounding Stones, with little Syrian and Moorish Boys. a 1700 Dryden Ceyx & Alcyone, Fables 363 Then o'er the bounding Billows shall we fly. 1783 Cowper Task vi. 327 The bounding fawn, that darts across the glade. 1837 Marryat Dog-Fiend xxiv, With what a bounding heart did [he] step into the boat! 1884 Daily News 1 Apr. 5/1 The days of a bounding revenue have not come back. |
b. Of the pulse.
| 1879 St. George's Hosp. Rep. IX. 783 A very bad illness, marked by headache, bounding, hardly compressible pulse. |
c. fig. Increasing by leaps and bounds.
| 1887 Charity Organis. Rev. III. 230 And yet, those..bounding vagrancy returns! |
2. = bounderish a. colloq.
| 1904 Spectator 31 Dec. 1089/1 A certain repulsion excited by his ‘bounding’ behaviour. 1924 H. A. Vachell Quinney's Adv. 169, I caught him looking at that bounding Tommy Loring. |
Hence ˈboundingly adv.
| 1838 Monthly Mag. 524 Away the bark boundingly goes. |