Word Meanings - DISPRISON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To let loose from prison, to set all liberty. Bulwer.

Related words: (words related to DISPRISON)

• PRISONMENT
  Imprisonment. Shak.
• LOOSE
  laus, Icel. lauss; akin to OD. loos, D. los, AS. leás false, deceitful, G. los, loose, Dan. & Sw. lös, Goth. laus, and E. lose. 1. Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book. Her hair,
• LOOSEN
  Etym: 1. To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a rock in the earth. After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening
• LOOSESTRIFE
  The name of several species of plants of the genus Lysimachia, having small star-shaped flowers, usually of a yellow color. Any species of the genus Lythrum, having purple, or, in some species, crimson flowers. Gray. False loosestrife, a plant
• LOOSENESS
  The state, condition, or quality, of being loose; as, the looseness of a cord; looseness of style; looseness of morals or of principles.
• LOOSELY
  In a loose manner.
• LOOSENER
  One who, or that which, loosens.
• 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, --
• LIBERTY
  A curve or arch in a bit to afford room for the tongue of the horse. (more info) 1. The state of a free person; exemption from subjection to the will of another claiming ownership of the person or services; freedom; -- opposed to slavery, serfdom,
• REIMPRISON
  To imprison again.
• 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;
• UNLOOSEN
  To loosen; to unloose.
• UNPRISON
  To take or deliver from prison.
• REIMPRISONMENT
  The act of reimprisoning, or the state of being reimprisoned.
• IMPRISONMENT
  The act of imprisoning, or the state of being imprisoned; confinement; restraint. His sinews waxen weak and raw Through long imprisonment and hard constraint. Spenser. Every confinement of the person is an imprisonment, whether it be in a common
• OUTLOOSE
  A loosing from; an escape; an outlet; an evasion. That "whereas" gives me an outloose. Selden.
• IMPRISONER
  One who imprisons.
• DISPRISON
  To let loose from prison, to set all liberty. Bulwer.
• STATEPRISON
  See N
• EMPRISON
  See IMPRISON
• UNLOOSE
  To make loose; to loosen; to set free. Shak.