Definition of confine

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Confine (n.) Common boundary; border; limit; -- used chiefly in the plural.

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Pent :: Pent (v. t.) Penned or shut up; confined; -- often with up.
Trave :: Trave (n.) A wooden frame to confine an unruly horse or ox while shoeing.
Hamleted :: Hamleted (p. a.) Confined to a hamlet.
Commark :: Commark (n.) The frontier of a country; confines.
Hindu :: Hindu (n.) A native inhabitant of Hindostan. As an ethnical term it is confined to the Dravidian and Aryan races; as a religious name it is restricted to followers of the Veda.
Fetter :: Fetter (n.) Anything that confines or restrains; a restraint.
Amia :: Amia (n.) A genus of fresh-water ganoid fishes, exclusively confined to North America; called bowfin in Lake Champlain, dogfish in Lake Erie, and mudfish in South Carolina, etc. See Bowfin..
Confine :: Confine (n.) Apartment; place of restraint; prison.
Coarctation :: Coarctation (n.) Confinement to a narrow space.
Astrict :: Astrict (v. t.) To bind up; to confine; to constrict; to contract.
Stint :: Stint (v. t.) To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to confine; to restrain; to restrict to a scant allowance.
Included :: Included (a.) Inclosed; confined.
Bound :: Bound (v. t.) To limit; to terminate; to fix the furthest point of extension of; -- said of natural or of moral objects; to lie along, or form, a boundary of; to inclose; to circumscribe; to restrain; to confine..
Hold :: Hold (v. t.) To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.
Incastellated :: Incastellated (a.) Confined or inclosed in a castle.
Pinfold :: Pinfold (n.) A place in which stray cattle or domestic animals are confined; a pound; a penfold.
Incoercible :: Incoercible (a.) That can note be confined in, or excluded from, vessels, like ordinary fluids, gases, etc.; -- said of the imponderable fluids, heat, light, electricity, etc..
Out :: Out (a.) Beyond the limits of concealment, confinement, privacy, constraint, etc., actual of figurative; hence, not in concealment, constraint, etc., in, or into, a state of freedom, openness, disclosure, publicity, etc.; as, the sun shines out; he laughed out, to be out at the elbows; the secret has leaked out, or is out; the disease broke out on his face; the book is out..
Discharge :: Discharge (v. t.) To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty; as, to discharge a prisoner..
Stock :: Stock (n.) A frame of timber, with holes in which the feet, or the feet and hands, of criminals were formerly confined by way of punishment..
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