Obs. [? f. A- pref. 11 + BOUND v.; but only known in pa. pple., so that the a- may be for I-, Y-. See A particle.] To set limits to, to restrain.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R. (1495), IV. iii. 81. A fletynge thynge … dryeth · puttyth itselfe as it were abounded, and to lette the fletynge.
1627. Speed, England descr. & abridged, i. § 9. The old names of whose Nations as also the knowledge of their seuerall abodes … haue of late with infinite labours … beene probably restored and abounded.
