Definition of cage

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Cage (n.) An outer framework of timber, inclosing something within it; as, the cage of a staircase..

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Bosky :: Bosky (a.) Woody or bushy; covered with boscage or thickets.
Uncage :: Uncage (v. t.) To loose, or release, from, or as from, a cage..
Cage :: Cage (n.) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, as a ball valve..
Boscage :: Boscage (n.) Food or sustenance for cattle, obtained from bushes and trees; also, a tax on wood..
Inmew :: Inmew (v. t.) To inclose, as in a mew or cage..
Bird Fancier :: Bird fancier () One who has for sale the various kinds of birds which are kept in cages.
Blocage :: Blocage (n.) The roughest and cheapest sort of rubblework, in masonry..
Willow :: Willow (n.) A machine in which cotton or wool is opened and cleansed by the action of long spikes projecting from a drum which revolves within a box studded with similar spikes; -- probably so called from having been originally a cylindrical cage made of willow rods, though some derive the term from winnow, as denoting the winnowing, or cleansing, action of the machine. Called also willy, twilly, twilly devil, and devil..
Encaged :: Encaged (imp. & p. p.) of Encag.
Cresset :: Cresset (n.) A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible..
Caged :: Caged (a.) Confined in, or as in, a cage; like a cage or prison..
Jako :: "Jako (n.) An African parrot (Psittacus erithacus), very commonly kept as a cage bird; -- called also gray parrot..
Alpia :: Alpia (n.) The seed of canary grass (Phalaris Canariensis), used for feeding cage birds..
Brocage :: Brocage (n.) See Brokkerage.
Car :: Car (n.) The cage of a lift or elevator.
Chaffinch :: Chaffinch (n.) A bird of Europe (Fringilla coelebs), having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also copper finch..
Waxbill :: Waxbill (n.) Any one of numerous species of finchlike birds belonging to Estrelda and allied genera, native of Asia, Africa, and Australia. The bill is large, conical, and usually red in color, resembling sealing wax. Several of the species are often kept as cage birds..
Car :: Car (n.) The basket, box, or cage suspended from a balloon to contain passengers, ballast, etc..
Rosella :: Rosella (n.) A beautiful Australian parrakeet (Platycercus eximius) often kept as a cage bird. The head and back of the neck are scarlet, the throat is white, the back dark green varied with lighter green, and the breast yellow..
Pen :: Pen (n. & v.) To shut up, as in a pen or cage; to confine in a small inclosure or narrow space; to coop up, or shut in; to inclose..
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