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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
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PRONUNCIATION:  bound
ADJECTIVE: Headed or intending to head in a specified direction: commuters bound for home; a south-bound train.
ETYMOLOGY:Alteration of Middle English boun, ready, from Old Norse binn, past participle of ba, to get ready. See bheu- in Appendix I.
 
 
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