bound4 (bound)

[With excrescent -d after n, as in sound5, round1, etc., or by confusion with bound3, A chieftain to the Highlands bound. Campbell, Lord Ullin's Daughter. Willing we sought your shores, and hither bound , The port so long desired at length we found. bound4+ (bound), v. i. bound4 , a . , of boun , a .] Dryden, Eneid, vii. 294. [Var. of boun , v., as To lead; go. [Rare.) The way that does to heaven bownd. Spenser, F. Q., I. x. 67. boundary (boun'da-ri), n.; pl. boundaries (-riz). [ A boundary between the things misnamed Death and existence. Byron, The Dream, i. IMG:content-2374.png:[blocks in formation] J. R. Green, Conq. of Eng., p. 212. =Syn. Boundary, Bound, Border, Confine, Frontier. A boundary, in its stricter sense, is a visible mark indicating a dividing-line between two things, or it is that line itself; it marks off a given thing from other things like in kind, as one field or country from another. A bound, on the other hand, is the limit or furthest point of extension of one given thing, that which limits it not being specially considered; it can be used of that which is not limited by anything like in kind: as, the boundaries of a field, but the bounds of space; the boundaries of a science, but the bounds of knowledge. Hence the figurative uses of bound: as, "I believe I speak within bounds, " where boun daries would be absurd. Thus, the bounds of a parish may be defined by certain marks or boundaries, as heaps stones, dikes, hedges, streams, etc., separating it from the adjoining parishes. But the two words are often interchangeable. A border is a belt or band of territory lying along a bound or boundary. A confine is the region at or near the edge, and generally a narrower margin than a border. A frontier is a border viewed as a front or place of entrance: as, he was met at the frontier. The word is used most in connection with military operations: as, their frontiers were well protected by fortre es. I at least, who, in my own West-Saxon home, find 642 The meaner cares of life were all he knew; Bounded his pleasures, and his wishes few. Crabbe , The Library. An eye well-practised in nature, a spirit bounded and poor. Tennyson, Maud, iv. 7.