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Confine

Confine (confine)
v. t.(?)
Con*fine"
[imp. & p. p. Confined (?)] p. pr. *** vb. n. Confining.] [F. confiner to border upon, LL. confinare to set bounds to] con- + finis boundary, end. See Final, F
  1. To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close.

    Now let not nature's hand
    Keep the wild flood confined! let order die!
    Shak.

    He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme.
    Dryden.

    To be confined, to be in childbed.

    Syn. -- To bound; limit; restrain; imprison; immure; inclose; circumscribe; restrict.

Confine

Confine (confine)
v. i.(? or (?)); 277)
Con"fine
  1. To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; -- followed by on or with.
    [Obs.]

    Where your gloomy bounds
    Confine with heaven.
    Milton.

    Bewixt heaven and earth and skies there stands a place.
    Confining on all three.
    Dryden.

Confine

Confine (confine)
n.(?)
Con"fine
  1. Common boundary; border; limit; -- used chiefly in the plural.

    Events that came to pass within the confines of Judea.
    Locke.

    And now in little space
    The confines met of empyrean heaven,
    And of this world.
    Milton.

    On the confines of the city and the Temple.
    Macaulay.

  2. Apartment; place of restraint; prison.
    [Obs.]

    Confines, wards, and dungeons.
    Shak.

    The extravagant and erring spirit hies
    To his confine.
    Shak.













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