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One who is corrigible; especially, a hardened criminal; as, the perpetual imprisonment of incorrigibles.

tment with another; a fellow lodger; esp.,one of the occupants of an asylum, hospital, or prison; by extension, one who occupies or lodges in any place or dwelling. So spake the enemy of mankind, inclos'd In serpent, inmate bad. Milton.

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.

A kind of prison; a building for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding. [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 delive…

The keeper of a jail or prison. [Written also jailor, gaoler.]

A prison; a jail; a lockup. [Slang] Gay.

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.

the lord of the castle, especially during a siege; the donjon. See Illust. of Castle. The prison strong, Within whose keep the captive knights were laid. Dryden. The lower chambers of those gloomy keeps. Hallam. I think . . . the keep, or principal part of a castle, was so called because the lord and his domestic circl…

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.

Freedom from imprisonment, bonds, or other restraint upon locomotion. Being pent from liberty, as I am now. Shak.

Hence: Any real or imaginary place of restraint or confinement; a prison; as, to put a man in limbo.

, the variable can never become exactly equivalent. Elastic limit. See under Elastic. -- Prison limits, a definite, extent of space in or around a prison, within which a prisoner has liberty to go and come.

An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison.[Eng.] Latimer.

A prison. [Obs.] Hudibras.

, 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.