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The state of being a captive or a prisoner. More celebrated in his captivity that in his greatest triumphs. Dryden.

One who captures any person or thing, as a prisoner or a prize.

An agreement between belligerents for the exchange of prisoners. Wilhelm.

To cause to sound with a clank; as, the prisoners clank their chains.

Strictly confined; carefully quarded; as, a close prisoner.

To furnish or fit with cork; to raise on cork. Tread on corked stilts a prisoner's pace. Bp. Hall.

ne (Mil.), a line drawn within or around a military prison, to cross which involves for a prisoner the penalty of being instantly shot. -- Dead load (Civil Engin.), a constant, motionless load, as the weight of a structure, in distinction from a moving load, as a train of cars, or a variable pressure, as of wind. --…

by despondence; given to despondence; low-spirited; as, a despondent manner; a despondent prisoner. -- De*spond"ent*ly, adv.

To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty; as, to discharge a prisoner.

lexible tube; -- named from the Sicilian tyrant, who constructed a device to overhear the prisoners in his dungeons. -- Ear sand (Anat.), otoliths. See Otolith. -- Ear snail (Zoöl.), any snail of the genus Auricula and allied genera. -- Ear stones (Anat.), otoliths. See Otolith. -- Ear trumpet, an instrument to aid…

The unlawful permission, by a jailer or other custodian, of a prisoner's departure from custody.

rding safety when on a journey; one who conducts some one as an attendant; a guard, as of prisoners on a march; also, a body of persons, attending as a mark of respect or honor; -- applied to movements on land, as convoy is to movements at sea. The troops of my escort marched at the ordinary rate. Burke.…

In Russia, a prison or stockade for the confinement of prisoners in transit.

To fetch. [Obs.] And from the other fifty soon the prisoner fet. Spenser.

confined or imprisoned; released from arrest; liberated; at liberty to go. Set an unhappy prisoner free. Prior.

uthority conferred upon judges and others included in it, for trying and delivering every prisoner in jail when the judges, upon their circuit, arrive at the place for holding court, and for discharging any whom the grand jury fail to indict. [Eng.] -- Gaol delivery. (Law) See Jail delivery, under Jail.…

A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded by the old prisoners of a newcomer. [Cant] Fielding. Garnish bolt (Carp.), a bolt with a chamfered or faceted head. Knight.

The room occupied by the guard during its term of duty; also, a room where prisoners are confined.

shackle; especially, one to confine the legs; a fetter. [Written also give.] Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves. Shak. With gyves upon his wrist. Hood.

by another, with the view to protect the right to personal liberty; also, one to bring a prisoner into court to testify in a pending trial. Bouvier.