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See Keg. [Obs.]

r partly of openwork, in wood or metal, used for confining birds or other animals. In his cage, like parrot fine and gay. Cowper.

Confined in, or as in, a cage; like a cage or prison. "The caged cloister." Shak.

A bird confined in a cage; esp. a young bird. [Poetic] Tennyson.

A king of parrot, of a beautiful green color, found in the Philippine Islands.

A tough old goose; hence, coarse, bad food of any kind. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

One of a race inhabiting the valleys of the Pyrenees, who until 1793 were political and social outcasts (Christian Pariahs). They are supposed to be a remnant of the Visigoths.

A cage for confining birds.

The roughest and cheapest sort of rubblework, in masonry.

A growth of trees or shrubs; underwood; a thicket; thick foliage; a wooded landscape.

See Brokkerage.

A tax on every plow or plowland.

An imaginary country of idleness and luxury.

A plane figure having ten sides and ten angles; any figure having ten angles. A regular decagon is one that has all its sides and angles equal.

Pertaining to a decagon; having ten sides.

A weight of the metric system; ten grams, equal to about 154.32 grains avoirdupois.

A Linnæan order of plants characterized by having ten styles.

Belonging to the Decagynia; having ten styles.

To uncage. [R.] Tennyson.

A figure or polygon bounded by twelve sides and containing twelve angles.