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What does "redound" mean?

Redound: To be in excess; to remain over and above; to be redundant; to overflow. For every dram of honey therein found, A pound of gall doth over it redound. Spenser.

Additional senses

  1. 2.The coming back, as of consequence or effect; result; return; requital. We give you welcome; not without redound Of use and glory to yourselves ye come. Tennyson.
  2. 3.Rebound; reverberation. [R.] Codrington.

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