Word Meanings - LITTLE-EASE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison. Latimer.

Related words: (words related to LITTLE-EASE)

• SLANGINESS
  Quality of being slangy.
• PRISONMENT
  Imprisonment. Shak.
• PILLORY
  A frame of adjustable boards erected on a post, and having holes through which the head and hands of an offender were thrust so as to be exposed in front of it. Shak. (more info) LL. piloricum, pilloricum, pellericum, pellorium, pilorium,
• SLANGOUS
  Slangy. John Bee.
• SLANGY
  Of or pertaining to slang; of the nature of slang; disposed to use slang.
• LATIMER
  An interpreter. Coke.
• SLANG
  imp. of Sling. Slung.
• 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, --
• 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;
• 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
• BOOMSLANGE
  A large South African tree snake . Although considered venomous by natives, it has no poison fangs.
• IMPRISONER
  One who imprisons.
• DISPRISON
  To let loose from prison, to set all liberty. Bulwer.
• STATEPRISON
  See N
• EMPRISON
  See IMPRISON
• GRANGER STOCKS; GRANGER SHARES
  Stocks or shares of the granger railroads.