Hypertext Webster Gateway: "bounded"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Bound \Bound\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bounded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Bounding}.]
1. 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.

Where full measure only bounds excess. --Milton.

Phlegethon . . . Whose fiery flood the burning
empire bounds. --Dryden.

2. To name the boundaries of; as, to bound France.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

bounded
adj : having the limits or boundaries established; "a delimited
frontier through the disputed region" [syn: {delimited}]


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