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.