Definition of cage

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Cage (v. i.) To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine..

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Aviary :: Aviary (n.) A house, inclosure, large cage, or other place, for keeping birds confined; a bird house..
Crib :: Crib (v. t.) To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
Bosky :: Bosky (a.) Caused by boscage.
Muzzle :: Muzzle (v. i.) A fastening or covering (as a band or cage) for the mouth of an animal, to prevent eating or vicious biting..
Socmanry :: Socmanry (n.) Tenure by socage.
Parrot :: Parrot (n.) Any species of Psittacus, Chrysotis, Pionus, and other genera of the family Psittacidae, as distinguished from the parrakeets, macaws, and lories. They have a short rounded or even tail, and often a naked space on the cheeks. The gray parrot, or jako (P. erithacus) of Africa (see Jako), and the species of Amazon, or green, parrots (Chrysotis) of America, are examples. Many species, as cage birds, readily learn to imitate sounds, and to repeat words and phrases..
Incagement :: Incagement (n.) Confinement in, or as in, cage..
Cage :: Cage (n.) An outer framework of timber, inclosing something within it; as, the cage of a staircase..
Cage :: Cage (n.) A box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood or metal, used for confining birds or other animals..
Cageling :: Cageling (n.) A bird confined in a cage; esp. a young bird.
Elevator :: Elevator (n.) A cage or platform and the hoisting machinery in a hotel, warehouse, mine, etc., for conveying persons, goods, etc., to or from different floors or levels; -- called in England a lift; the cage or platform itself..
Car :: Car (n.) The cage of a lift or elevator.
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..
Cresset :: Cresset (n.) A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible..
Rape :: Rape (n.) A name given to a variety or to varieties of a plant of the turnip kind, grown for seeds and herbage. The seeds are used for the production of rape oil, and to a limited extent for the food of cage birds..
Hencoop :: Hencoop (n.) A coop or cage for hens.
Amadavat :: Amadavat (n.) The strawberry finch, a small Indian song bird (Estrelda amandava), commonly caged and kept for fighting. The female is olive brown; the male, in summer, mostly crimson; -- called also red waxbill..
Brocage :: Brocage (n.) See Brokkerage.
Mew :: Mew (v. t.) To shut up; to inclose; to confine, as in a cage or other inclosure..
Boskiness :: Boskiness (n.) Boscage; also, the state or quality of being bosky..
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