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Confine (kŏn‑fīnˈ), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Confined (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Confining.] [F. confiner to border upon, LL. confinare to set bounds to; con- + finis boundary, end. See Final, Finish.] To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close.
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Now let not nature's hand
Keep the wild flood confined! let order die! Shak.
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He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme. Dryden.
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To be confined, to be in childbed.
Syn. -- To bound; limit; restrain; imprison; immure; inclose; circumscribe; restrict.
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Confine (? or ); 277), v. i. To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; -- followed by on or with. [Obs.]
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Where your gloomy bounds
Confine with heaven. Milton.
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Bewixt heaven and earth and skies there stands a place.
Confining on all three. Dryden.
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Confine (?), n.
1. Common boundary; border; limit; -- used chiefly in the plural.
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Events that came to pass within the confines of Judea. Locke.
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And now in little space
The confines met of empyrean heaven,
And of this world. Milton.
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On the confines of the city and the Temple. Macaulay.
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2. Apartment; place of restraint; prison. [Obs.]
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Confines, wards, and dungeons. Shak.
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The extravagant and erring spirit hies
To his confine. Shak.
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