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   Prison , n. [F., fr. L. prehensio, prensio, a seizing, arresting, fr. prehendre, prendere, to lay hold of, to seize. See Prehensile, and cf. Prize, n., Misprision.]
   A place where persons are confined, or restrained of personal liberty; hence, a place or state o confinement, restraint, or safe custody.
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   Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name.
   Ps. cxlii. 7.
   
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   The tyrant Aeolus, . . . 
   With power imperial, curbs the struggling winds,
   And sounding tempests in dark prisons binds.
   Dryden.
   
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   Specifically, a building for the safe custody or confinement of criminals and others committed by lawful authority.
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   Prison bars, or Prison base. See Base, n., 24. -- Prison breach. (Law) See Note under 3d Escape, n., 4. -- Prison house, a prison. Shak. -- Prison ship (Naut.), a ship fitted up for the confinement of prisoners. -- Prison van, a carriage in which prisoners are conveyed to and from prison.
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   Prison, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prisoned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Prisoning.]
   To imprison; to shut up in, or as in, a prison; to confine; to restrain from liberty.
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   The prisoned eagle dies for rage.
   Sir W. Scott.
   
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   His true respect will prison false desire.
   Shak.
   
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   To bind (together); to enchain. [Obs.]
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   Sir William Crispyn with the duke was led
   Together prisoned.
   Robert of Brunne.
   
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