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Definition of Confines
Confine Confine Con"fine (? or ?); 277), v. i.
To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to
touch; -- followed by on or with. [Obs.]
Where your gloomy bounds Confine with heaven. --Milton.
Bewixt heaven and earth and skies there stands a place.
Confining on all three. --Dryden.
Confine Confine Con"fine, n.
1. Common boundary; border; limit; -- used chiefly in the
plural.
Events that came to pass within the confines of
Judea. --Locke.
And now in little space The confines met of empyrean
heaven, And of this world. --Milton.
On the confines of the city and the Temple.
--Macaulay.
2. Apartment; place of restraint; prison. [Obs.]
Confines, wards, and dungeons. --Shak.
The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his
confine. --Shak.
