3. A bold lie; also, a liar. [Collog.] Marryat.
4. Something big; a good stout example of the kind. The stone must be a bouncer. De Quincey.
BOUNCING
Boun"cing, a.
1. Stout; plump and healthy; lusty; buxom. Many tall and bouncing young ladies. Thackeray.
2. Excessive; big. "A bouncing reckoning." B. & Fl. Bouncing Bet (Bot.), the common soapwort (Saponaria officinalis). Harper's Mag.
BOUNCINGLY
Boun"cing*ly, adv.
Defn: With a bounce.
BOUND Bound, n. Etym: [OE. bounde, bunne, OF. bonne, bonde, bodne, F. borne, fr. LL. bodina, bodena, bonna; prob. of Celtic origin; cf. Arm. bonn boundary, limit, and boden, bod, a tuft or cluster of trees, by which a boundary or limit could be marked. Cf. Bourne.]
Defn: The external or limiting line, either real or imaginary, of any object or space; that which limits or restrains, or within which something is limited or restrained; limit; confine; extent; boundary. He hath compassed the waters with bounds. Job xxvi. 10. On earth's remotest bounds. Campbell. And mete the bounds of hate and love. Tennyson. To keep within bounds, not to exceed or pass beyond assigned limits; to act with propriety or discretion.
Syn.
— See Boundary.