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▪ I. ˈinbound, a.1
[f. in adv. + bound ppl. a.1: cf. outbound.]
Bound inward or homeward.
1894Outing (U.S.) XXIV. 473/1 Inbound vessels told of passing these valiant American schooners. 1967Jane's Surface Skimmer Systems 1967–68 63/1 Inbound freight is sorted on arrival at terminal. 1971D. Potter Brit. Eliz. Stamps xiii. 144 Clever collectors with new issues of stamps purchased at the all-night post office in London, would rush to stations within 50 miles or so of London to post their covers on inbound services. 1973D. Westheimer Going Public ix. 127 Drivers on the inbound lanes slowed to a crawl.
▪ II. ˈinbound, a.2
[f. inbind v.; cf. bound ppl. a.2]
Of a leaf, gathering, etc., in a manuscript or book: bound within.
1953D. C. C. Young in Scriptorium VIII. 15 There is an inbound quaternion of blanks.
▪ III. † inˈbound, v. Obs.
[f. in-1 + bound v.]
trans. To inclose as a boundary; to bound. (See also embound.)
1600Fairfax Tasso xviii. xx, On the greene banks which that faire streame inbound, Flowers and odours sweetely smilde and smeld. 1627Speed England v. §1 Vpon the East Kent doth imbound it [Surrey]. 1649W. Blithe Eng. Improv. Impr. (1653) 47 Your Marsh Lands..lye under the Levell of the Sea, and were it not inbounded by the banks,..would all return to the Sea again. |