Definition of cage

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Cage (n.) A place of confinement for malefactor.

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Encaged :: Encaged (imp. & p. p.) of Encag.
Myna :: Myna (n.) Any one of numerous species of Asiatic starlings of the genera Acridotheres, Sturnopastor, Sturnia, Gracula, and allied genera. In habits they resemble the European starlings, and like them are often caged and taught to talk. See Hill myna, under Hill, and Mino bird..
Boskiness :: Boskiness (n.) Boscage; also, the state or quality of being bosky..
Birdcage :: Birdcage (n.) A cage for confining birds.
Lantern :: Lantern (n.) A cage or open chamber of rich architecture, open below into the building or tower which it crowns..
Boskage :: Boskage (n.) Same as Boscage.
Cage :: Cage (v. i.) To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine..
Incage :: Incage (v. t.) To confine in, or as in, a cage; to coop up..
Sembling :: Sembling (n.) The practice of attracting the males of Lepidoptera or other insects by exposing the female confined in a cage.
Cresset :: Cresset (n.) A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible..
Incagement :: Incagement (n.) Confinement in, or as in, cage..
Inmew :: Inmew (v. t.) To inclose, as in a mew or cage..
Cageling :: Cageling (n.) A bird confined in a cage; esp. a young bird.
Lantern :: Lantern (n.) A kind of cage inserted in a stuffing box and surrounding a piston rod, to separate the packing into two parts and form a chamber between for the reception of steam, etc. ; -- called also lantern brass..
Brocage :: Brocage (n.) See Brokkerage.
Socmanry :: Socmanry (n.) Tenure by socage.
Bonnet :: Bonnet (n.) A roofing over the cage of a mine, to protect its occupants from objects falling down the shaft..
Willow :: Willow (n.) A machine in which cotton or wool is opened and cleansed by the action of long spikes projecting from a drum which revolves within a box studded with similar spikes; -- probably so called from having been originally a cylindrical cage made of willow rods, though some derive the term from winnow, as denoting the winnowing, or cleansing, action of the machine. Called also willy, twilly, twilly devil, and devil..
Indicator :: Indicator (n.) A telltale connected with a hoisting machine, to show, at the surface, the position of the cage in the shaft of a mine, etc..
Aviary :: Aviary (n.) A house, inclosure, large cage, or other place, for keeping birds confined; a bird house..
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