[f. BOUND v.1 + -ING2.] That bounds, or forms a boundary to.

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1593.  Shaks., Lucr., 1119. A gentle flood … the bounding banks o’erflows.

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1789.  Burns, Banks of Frith, ii. Where bounding hawthorns gaily bloom.

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1850.  Tennyson, In Mem., xvii. Thro’ circles of the bounding sky.

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1881.  Maxwell, Electr. & Magn., I. 17. The region has one bounding surface.

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  † b.  With on: Bordering on. Obs.

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1597.  Warner, Alb. Eng., Æneidos, 317. A part of Thrace called Cressa, bounding on Mygdonia.

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1600.  Holland, Livy, XXVII. xxx. 691 e. A citie … bounding upon the Ocean.

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