Rebound

v. i. [imp. & p. p. REBOUNDED; p. pr. & vb. n. REBOUNDING.] [Prefix re and bound, Fr. rebondir.] To spring back; to start back; to be reverberated by elastic force on collision with another body; as, a rebounding echo.

Bodies absolutely hard, or so soft as to be void of elasticity, will not rebound from one another. Newton.

v. t. To drive back; to reverberate. Silenus sung; the vales his voice rebound. Dryden.

n. The act of flying back upon collision with another body; resilience. “Put back as from a rock with swift rebound.” Dryden.