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A prison. Hudibras.

PRISONMENT
Imprisonment. Shak.
HUDIBRASTIC
Similar to, or in the style of, the poem "Hudibras," by Samuel Butler; in the style of doggerel verse. Macaulay.
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
IMPRISONER
One who imprisons.
DISPRISON
To let loose from prison, to set all liberty. Bulwer.
STATEPRISON
See N
EMPRISON
See IMPRISON