CONFINE, CONFINED, CONFINEMENT
ADJECTIVES
1545 ► ARCT confined, narrow, tight → obs.
1593 ► IMMURATE confined, imprisoned; immured; enclosed in walls or as in walls → obs.
1594 ► AT HARD-MEAT in close confinement; under strict restraint → obs.
1633 ► IMPENT confined; enclosed; pent in; shut in a pen or fold → obs.
19C.. ► COBBY confined, crowded, closely packed → Eng. dial.
1854 ► CABINED confined in action, thought, etc.; cramped, hampered
1899 ► THRUSTEN confined, crowded; incommoded by want of space or pressure of business → Eng. dial.
1904 ► SCRAMMY confined, cramped → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1951 ► BLIZZED IN confined indoors by harsh weather conditions → Antarctica usage
NOUNS
1300 ► BAND confinement, imprisonment, custody → obs.
1382 ► KEEPING confinement, imprisonment; prison → obs.
1535 ► DURANCE forced confinement; imprisonment; constraint
1596 ► CANCELS confines, prison bars, limits, bounds → obs.
L19.. ► RAP confinement to an institution, other than a prison → US sl.
1802 ► THOR confinement, durance → Sc. obs.
1832 ► FAST-HOLD confinement, durance
1914 ► CAN a place of confinement; a prison; a cell → criminals’ sl. (Bk.)
NOUNS, PERSON
1940 ► YARDBIRD a person confined by authority to a restricted area → US sl.
VERBS
1250 ► THRING to confine, to shut up; to thrust or crush (into a confined space) → obs.
1300 ► BESHUT to confine, to shut up, to imprison; to shut in, to enclose, to surround → obs.
1300 ► PAR → PARR to confine, to enclose; to shut up in an enclosure; to pen → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1315 ► ACLOSE to confine, to enclose, to shut up → obs. rare
1393 ► BOUND to confine within bounds; to set bounds to, to limit → obs.
1430 ► TINE to confine, to restrain to something → obs.
1440 ► UMBECAST to confine, to enclose → obs.
1565 ► LAY UP to place in confinement, to imprison → obs.
1582 ► KENNEL to put in a place of confinement or retreat
1583 ► IMMURE to confine, to shut in; to enclose, to encompass, to encircle, to surround → rare
1588 ► IMMURE to confine as in a prison or fortress; to shut up or enclose within walls; to imprison
1600 ► BAIL to confine → rare
1600 ► IMMEW to keep in confinement or restraint; to mew or coop up → obs.
1606 ► BOUNDIFY to confine, to set bounds to → obs. rare
1634 ► TERMINE to confine, to restrict, to limit in specified bounds → obs.
1636 ► HAIN to confine, to shut up, to restrain → obs. rare
1643 ► LAY NECK AND HEELS to confine or bind securely → obs.
M17. ► HIDEBIND to confine, to constrict; to make hidebound → rare
1680 ► HASP to confine or fasten in a tight place; to lock up → obs.
1701 ► TIE NECK AND HEELS to confine or bind securely
1768 ► HAMPHIS to confine, to surround; to hem in → Sc. obs.
1839 ► CARCERATE to confine, to imprison, to incarcerate
1860 ► POKE to confine or shut up in a poky place → colloq.
1905 ► MEW UP to confine, to coop up → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1919 ► DO A PADDY DOYLE to serve a time of confinement → Brit. services’ sl.
1999 ► CIRCLE IN to confine (Bk.)