Obs. [f. BOUND v.1]
1. The action of forming or marking a limit of, or setting up a boundary to. Also with out.
1543. Act 35 Hen. VIII., xvii. § 7. The … meting and bounding of the said fourth Part of the said Woods.
1602. Carew, Cornwall, 13 b. When a Myne is found…, the first discouerer … at the foure corners of his limited proportion, diggeth vp three Turfes, and the like (if he list) on the sides, which they terme Bounding.
1614. Raleigh, Hist. World, II. 272. In bounding out their proper lands.
2. Abuttal, marching; boundary.
1552. Huloet, Bowndynge or buttynge of thre fieldes ioynynge together.
1703. De Foe, Orig. Power People, in Misc., 159. Buttings and Boundings of Land.
1750. G. Hughes, Barbados, 6. The buttings and boundings of several tenements near this bay.
3. fig. A limiting, confining or restricting.
1608. Hieron, Wks., I. Q 99. Neither is it … any straightning or bounding of Gods Spirit.
1658. in Burton, Diary (1828), III. 316. This is a bounding of our power.
