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Word Meanings - CAGED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Confined in, or as in, a cage; like a cage or prison. "The caged cloister." Shak.

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  • CONFINER
    One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
  • CAGED
    Confined in, or as in, a cage; like a cage or prison. "The caged cloister." Shak.
  • CONFINABLE
    Capable of being confined, restricted, or limited. Not confinable to any limits. Bp. Hall.
  • CLOISTER
    claustra, bar, bolt, bounds, fr. claudere, clausum, to close. See 1. An inclosed place. Chaucer. 2. A covered passage or ambulatory on one side of a court; the series of such passages on the different sides of any court, esp. that
  • PRISONMENT
    Imprisonment. Shak.
  • CLOISTERED
    1. Dwelling in cloisters; solitary. "Cloistered friars and vestal nuns." Hudibras. In cloistered state let selfish sages dwell, Proud that their heart is narrow as their cell. Shenstone. 2. Furnished with cloisters. Sir H. Wotton.
  • CONFINELESS
    Without limitation or end; boundless. Shak.
  • CLOISTERER
    One belonging to, or living in, a cloister; a recluse.
  • CONFINE
    To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close. Now let not nature's hand Keep the wild flood confined! let order die! Shak. He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of
  • CONFINEMENT
    1. Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion. The mind hates restraint, and is apt to fancy itself under confinement when the sight is pent up. Addison. 2. Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by
  • CAGE
    An outer framework of timber, inclosing something within it; as the cage of a staircase. Gwilt. A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, as a ball valve. A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes. 5. The box, bucket,
  • CONFINITY
    Community of limits; contiguity. Bailey.
  • CLOISTERAL
    Cloistral. I. Walton.
  • CAG
    See KEG
  • CAGIT
    A king of parrot, of a beautiful green color, found in the Philippine Islands.
  • CAGOT
    One of a race inhabiting the valleys of the Pyrenees, who until 1793 were political and social outcasts . They are supposed to be a remnant of the Visigoths.
  • CAGELING
    A bird confined in a cage; esp. a young bird. Tennyson.
  • PRISON
    arresting, fr. prehendre, prendere, to lay hold of, to seize. See 1. A place where persons are confined, or restrained of personal liberty; hence, a place or state o Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name. Ps. cxlii. The tyrant
  • PRISONER
    1. One who is confined in a prison. Piers Plowman. 2. A person under arrest, or in custody, whether in prison or not; a person held in involuntary restraint; a captive; as, a prisoner at the bar of a court. Bouvier. Prisoner of Hope thou art, --
  • PICCAGE
    Money paid at fairs for leave to break ground for booths. Ainsworth. (more info) Law)
  • ENCAGE
    To confine in a cage; to coop up. Shak. (more info) Etym:
  • REIMPRISON
    To imprison again.
  • UNCAGE
    To loose, or release, from, or as from, a cage.
  • SCAGLIA
    A reddish variety of limestone.
  • ENCLOISTER
    To shut up in a cloister; to cloister.
  • IMPRISON
    1. To put in prison or jail; To arrest and detain in custody; to confine. He imprisoned was in chains remediles. Spenser. 2. To limit, restrain, or confine in any way. Try to imprison the resistless wind. Dryden. Syn. -- To incarcerate; confine;
  • UNCLOISTER
    To release from a cloister, or from confinement or seclusion; to set free; to liberate.
  • UNPRISON
    To take or deliver from prison.
  • SOCAGER
    A tennant by socage; a socman.
  • DODECAGYNIA
    A Linnæan order of plants having twelve styles.
  • REIMPRISONMENT
    The act of reimprisoning, or the state of being reimprisoned.

 

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