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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)