[f. BOUND v.2] A leaping or springing, esp. in an elastic way.

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1617.  Markham, Caval., II. 199. It fortifies a horse exceedingly in his boundings and hie salts.

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1712.  Addison, Spect., No. 321, ¶ 6. His [Satan’s] bounding over the Walls of Paradise.

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1769.  Falconer, Dict. Marine (1789), G g iv. The bounding of a flat stone thrown horizontally into the water.

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1841.  Macaulay, Comic Dram. Restor., Ess. (1854), II. 569/2. Amidst the bounding of champagne corks.

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