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r crosed bars, with interstices; a kind of latticework, such as is used ia the windows of prisons and cloisters. "A secret grate of iron bars." Shak.

of parallel or cross bars; a latticework resembling a window grate; as, the grating of a prison or convent.

rm the operation of grinding something; to turn the millstones. Send thee Into the common prison, there to grind. Milton.

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.

party before a court or judge; especially, one to inquire into the cause of a person's imprisonment or detention 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.

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

-- To have the heels of, to outrun. -- To lay by the heels, to fetter; to shackle; to imprison. Shak. Addison. -- To show the heels, to flee; to run from. -- To take to the heels, to flee; to betake to flight. -- To throw up another's heels, to trip him. Bunyan. -- To tread upon one's heels, to follow closely. Sh…

A dungeon or prison; also, in certain running games, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.

th the means of deliverance from trouble; as, to help one in distress; to help one out of prison. "God help, poor souls, how idly do they talk!" Shak.

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

A place of confinement; a prison; confinement; custody; guard. They . . . put them in hold unto the next day. Acts. iv. 3. King Richard, he is in the mighty hold Of Bolingbroke. Shak.

or was taken; in later usage, a written proclamation issued on the escape of a felon from prison, requiring all persons to aid in retaking him. Burrill.

or take out the masts of a ship. -- The hulks, old or dismasted ships, formerly used as prisons. [Eng.] Dickens.

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

or condition of being illegal; unlawfulness; as, the illegality of trespass or of false imprisonment; also, an illegal act.

To inclose whithin walls, or as within walls; hence, to shut up; to imprison; to incarcerate. Those tender babes Whom envy hath immured within your walls. Shak. This huge convex of fire, Outrageous to devour, immures us round. Milton.

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

To imprison; to confine in a jail or priso

The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment. Glanvill.