Definition of cage

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Cage (n.) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, as a ball valve..

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Chaffinch :: Chaffinch (n.) A bird of Europe (Fringilla coelebs), having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also copper finch..
Socage :: Socage (n.) A tenure of lands and tenements by a certain or determinate service; a tenure distinct from chivalry or knight's service, in which the obligations were uncertain. The service must be certain, in order to be denominated socage, as to hold by fealty and twenty shillings rent..
Bird Cage :: Bird cage (n.) Alt. of Birdcag.
Cage :: Cage (n.) The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft..
Brocage :: Brocage (n.) See Brokkerage.
Boskiness :: Boskiness (n.) Boscage; also, the state or quality of being bosky..
Muzzle :: Muzzle (v. i.) A fastening or covering (as a band or cage) for the mouth of an animal, to prevent eating or vicious biting..
Sembling :: Sembling (n.) The practice of attracting the males of Lepidoptera or other insects by exposing the female confined in a cage.
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..
Mew :: Mew (v. t.) To shut up; to inclose; to confine, as in a cage or other inclosure..
Discage :: Discage (v. t.) To uncage.
Carucage :: Carucage (n.) The act of plowing.
Bosky :: Bosky (a.) Caused by boscage.
Amadavat :: Amadavat (n.) 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..
Tumbril :: Tumbril (n.) A kind of basket or cage of osiers, willows, or the like, to hold hay and other food for sheep..
Hencoop :: Hencoop (n.) A coop or cage for hens.
Bosky :: Bosky (a.) Woody or bushy; covered with boscage or thickets.
Waxbill :: Waxbill (n.) Any one of numerous species of finchlike birds belonging to Estrelda and allied genera, native of Asia, Africa, and Australia. The bill is large, conical, and usually red in color, resembling sealing wax. Several of the species are often kept as cage birds..
Boscage :: Boscage (n.) Food or sustenance for cattle, obtained from bushes and trees; also, a tax on wood..
Car :: Car (n.) The cage of a lift or elevator.
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