boun

v. t. To make or get ready. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To drive against anything suddenly and violently; to bump; to thump. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cause to bound or rebound; sometimes, to toss. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment. [ Collog. U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To bully; to scold. [ Collog. ] J. Fletcher. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Bounced p. pr. & vb. n. Bouncing ] [ OE. bunsen; cf. D. bonzen to strike, bounce, bons blow, LG. bunsen to knock; all prob. of imitative origin. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly. [ 1913 Webster ]

Another bounces as hard as he can knock. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

Against his bosom bounced his heaving heart. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound; as, she bounced into the room. [ 1913 Webster ]

Out bounced the mastiff. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bounced off his arm+chair. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To boast; to talk big; to bluster. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With a sudden leap; suddenly. [ 1913 Webster ]

This impudent puppy comes bounce in upon me. Bickerstaff. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A sudden leap or bound; a rebound. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump. [ 1913 Webster ]

The bounce burst open the door. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An explosion, or the noise of one. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer. Johnson. De Quincey.&unr_; [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Zool.) A dogfish of Europe (Scyllium catulus). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who bounces; a large, heavy person who makes much noise in moving. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A boaster; a bully. [ Collog. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A bold lie; also, a liar. [ Collog. ] Marryat. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Something big; a good stout example of the kind. [ 1913 Webster ]

The stone must be a bouncer. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. a person employed by a tavern, nightclub, or other place of public meeting, to eject persons who become violent or unruly. [ PJC ]

a. 1. Stout; plump and healthy; lusty; buxom. [ 1913 Webster ]

Many tall and bouncing young ladies. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Excessive; big. “A bouncing reckoning.” B. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bouncing Bet (Bot.), the common soapwort (Saponaria officinalis). Harper's Mag. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With a bounce. [ 1913 Webster ]