[f. BOUND v.2 + -ING2.] That bounds, leaps or springs. Also fig.

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a. 1667.  Cowley, Greatness, Wks. 1710, II. 746. Playing at Nuts and Bounding Stones, with little Syrian and Moorish Boys.

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a. 1700.  Dryden, Ceyx & Alcyone, Fables, 363. Then o’er the bounding Billows shall we fly.

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1783.  Cowper, Task, VI. 327. The bounding fawn, that darts across the glade.

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1837.  Marryat, Dog-fiend, xxiv. With what a bounding heart did [he] step into the boat!

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1884.  Daily News, 1 April, 5/1. The days of a bounding revenue have not come back.

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  Hence Boundingly adv.

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1838.  Monthly Mag., 524. Away the bark boundingly goes.

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