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To treat; to use, well or ill. How wert thou handled being prisoner. Shak.

At this point of time, or of an argument; now. The prisoner here made violent efforts to rise. Warren.

zing by degrees, it admitted slavery instead of death; a further step was the exchange of prisoners instead of slavery. Franklin.

money. The second five thousand pounds impressed for the service of the sick and wounded prisoners. Evelyn.

not chargeable for, or guilty of, a particular crime or offense; as, the innocence of the prisoner was clearly shown.

ausing insanity or madness. [R.] Or have we eaten on the insaneroot That takes the reason prisoner Shak.

eeding. [Written also gaol.] This jail I count the house of liberty. Milton. Jail bird, a prisoner; one who has been confined in prison. [Slang] - - Jail delivery, the release of prisoners from jail, either legally or by violence. -- Jail delivery commission. See under Gaol. -- Jail fever (Med.), typhus fever, or a d…

idence legally adduced. See Grand jury under Grand, and Inquest. The jury, passing on the prisoner's life. Shak.

ice, right, or duty; defense; vindication; support; as, arguments in justification of the prisoner's conduct; his disobedience admits justification. I hope, for my brother's justification, he wrote this but as an essay or taste of my virtue. Shak.

One who retains in custody; one who has the care of a prison and the charge of prisoners.

ngagement or obligation. [Colloq.] To let out. (a) To allow to go forth; as, to let out a prisoner. (b) To extend or loosen, as the folds of a garment; to enlarge; to suffer to run out, as a cord. (c) To lease; to give out for performance by contract, as a job. (d) To divulge. -- To let slide, to let go; to cease to c…

bondage; to set at liberty; to free; to manumit; to disengage; as, to liberate a slave or prisoner; to liberate the mind from prejudice; to liberate gases.

tic. -- Prison limits, a definite, extent of space in or around a prison, within which a prisoner has liberty to go and come.

, or to shut in or out -- often with up; as, to lock one's self in a room; to lock up the prisoners; to lock up one's silver; to lock intruders out of the house; to lock money into a vault; to lock a child in one's arms; to lock a secret in one's breast.

A surety, under the old writ of mainprise, for a prisoner's appearance in court at a day.

rit directed to the sheriff, commanding him to take sureties, called mainpernors, for the prisoner's appearance, and to let him go at large. This writ is now obsolete. Wharton.

superintend the education of girls, and protect decent women out of employment, to visit prisoners and the sick, and to attend persons condemned to death. -- To be at the mercy of, to be wholly in the power of.

of the day (Mil.), the officer who, on a given day, has charge for that day of the quard, prisoners, and police of the post or camp. -- Officer of the deck, or Officer of the watch (Naut.), the officer temporarily in charge on the deck of a vessel, esp. a war vessel.

] "Be not jealous on me." Shak. Or have we eaten on the insane root That takes the reason prisoner Shak.

A prison so contructed that the inspector can see each of the prisoners at all times, without being seen.