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Word Meanings - SURCINGLED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Bound with the surcingle.

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  • BOUNDLESS
    Without bounds or confines; illimitable; vast; unlimited. "The boundless sky." Bryant. "The boundless ocean." Dryden. "Boundless rapacity." "Boundless prospect of gain." Macaulay. Syn. -- Unlimited; unconfined; immeasurable; illimitable; infinite.
  • SURCINGLE
    The girdle of a cassock, by which it is fastened round the waist. (more info) 1. A belt, band, or girth which passes over a saddle, or over anything laid on a horse's back, to bind it fast.
  • BOUNDING
    Moving with a bound or bounds. The bounding pulse, the languid limb. Montgomery.
  • BOUNDEN
    1. Bound; fastened by bonds. 2. Under obligation; bound by some favor rendered; obliged; beholden. This holy word, that teacheth us truly our bounden duty toward our Lord God in every point. Ridley. 3. Made obligatory; imposed as a duty; binding.
  • SURCINGLED
    Bound with the surcingle.
  • BOUNDARY
    That which indicates or fixes a limit or extent, or marks a bound, as of a territory; a bounding or separating line; a real or imaginary limit. But still his native country lies Beyond the boundaries of the skies. N. Cotton. That bright and tranquil
  • BOUNDER
    One who, or that which, limits; a boundary. Sir T. Herbert.
  • BOUND
    The external or limiting line, either real or imaginary, of any object or space; that which limits or restrains, or within which something is limited or restrained; limit; confine; extent; boundary. He hath compassed the waters with bounds. Job
  • HOME-BOUND
    Kept at home.
  • OUTBOUND
    Outward bound. Dryden.
  • UNBOUND
    imp. & p. p. of Unbind.
  • UNBOUNDED
    Having no bound or limit; as, unbounded space; an, unbounded ambition. Addison. -- Un*bound"ed*ly, adv. -- Un*bound"ed*ness, n.
  • SURREBOUND
    To give back echoes; to reëcho. Chapman.
  • REBOUND
    1. To spring back; to start back; to be sent back or reverberated by elastic force on collision with another body; as, a rebounding echo. Bodies which are absolutely hard, or so soft as to be void of elasticity, will not rebound from one another.
  • OUTBOUNDS
    The farthest or exterior bounds; extreme limits; boundaries. Spenser.
  • WINDBOUND
    prevented from sailing, by a contrary wind. See Weatherbound.
  • SNOW-BOUND
    Enveloped in, or confined by, snow. Whittier.
  • ABOUND
    1. To be in great plenty; to be very prevalent; to be plentiful. The wild boar which abounds in some parts of the continent of Europe. Chambers. Where sin abounded grace did much more abound. Rom. v. 20. 2. To be copiously supplied; -- followed
  • OVERABOUND
    To be exceedingly plenty or superabundant. Pope.
  • BROWBOUND
    Crowned; having the head encircled as with a diadem. Shak.
  • SPELLBOUND
    Bound by, or as by, a spell.
  • HALF-BOUND
    Having only the back and corners in leather, as a book.
  • HIDEBOUND
    Having the bark so close and constricting that it impedes the growth; -- said of trees. Bacon. 3. Untractable; bigoted; obstinately and blindly or stupidly conservative. Milton. Carlyle. 4. Niggardly; penurious. Quarles. (more info) 1. Having
  • IMBOUND
    To inclose in limits; to shut in. Shak.
  • SUPERABOUND
    To be very abundant or exuberant; to be more than sufficient; as, the country superabounds with corn.

 

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