bouquet (bok a)

[F., a nosegay, a plume, He pa 'd the flaming bounds of space and time. His princedom lay Close on the borders of a territory Wherein were bandit earls, and caitiff knights. Tennyson, Geraint. The heavens and sea Meet at their contines , in the middle way. Dryden, Ceyx and Alcyone, 1. 154. Æthelflæd strengthened her western frontier against any inroad from the Welsh by the erection of forts at Scargate and Bridge north. J. R. Green, Conq. of Eng., p. 190. bound-bailifft (bound'bā"lif), n . [ bound3 + bailiff ; so called, according to Black stone, in allusion to the bond given by the bailiff for the faithful discharge of his duties; but the term is merely a fictitious explanation of bumbailiff .] A sheriff's officer; a bumbailiff. bounded (boun'ded), p. a. Having bounds or limits; limited; circumscribed; confined; cramped; narrow. =Syn. 1. Munificent, generous, beneficent, kind. teous manner; with generous liberality; liberally; generously; largely; freely. Let me know that man, Whose love is so sincere to spend his blood For my sake; I will bounteously requite him. Beau , and Fl . , Honest Man's Fortune, ii. 2.