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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 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.

To uncage. [R.] Tennyson.

To confine in a cage; to coop up. Shak.

To confine in, or as in, a cage; to coop up. [Written also encage.] "Incaged birds." Shak.

Confinement in, or as in, cage. [Obs.] Shelton.

Money paid at fairs for leave to break ground for booths. Ainsworth.

the obligations were uncertain. The service must be certain, in order to be denominated socage, as to hold by fealty and twenty shillings rent. [Written also soccage.]

A tennant by socage; a socman.

To loose, or release, from, or as from, a cage.

The seed of canary grass (Phalaris Canariensis), used for feeding cage birds.

The strawberry finch, a small Indian song bird (Estrelda amandava), commonly caged and kept for fighting. The female is olive brown; the male, in summer, mostly crimson; -- called also red waxbill. [Written also amaduvad and avadavat.]

Of a mixed nature; partaking of two natures. Not in free and common socage, but in this amphibious subordinate class of villein socage. Blackstone.

a caper. And fraught with antics as the Indian bird That writhes and chatters in her wiry cage. Wordsworth.