Now let not nature's hand
Keep the wild flood confined! let order die! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

To be confined, to be in childbed.

Syn. -- To bound; limit; restrain; imprison; immure; inclose; circumscribe; restrict. [ 1913 Webster ]

Where your gloomy bounds
Confine with heaven. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bewixt heaven and earth and skies there stands a place.
Confining on all three. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Events that came to pass within the confines of Judea. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

And now in little space
The confines met of empyrean heaven,
And of this world. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

On the confines of the city and the Temple. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Apartment; place of restraint; prison. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Confines, wards, and dungeons. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The extravagant and erring spirit hies
To his confine. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. deprived of liberty; especially placed under arrest or restraint. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. having movement restricted to within an enclosed outdoor area; -- of animals.
Syn. -- fenced in, penned. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

4. (Med.) not invading healthy tissue. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

5. held prisoner.
Syn. -- captive, imprisoned, jailed. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

6. having movement or progress restricted to a certain area; as, an outbreak of the plague confined to one quarter of the city; wildfires confined to within the canyon. [ PJC ]

The mind hates restraint, and is apt to fancy itself under confinement when the sight is pent up. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by childbirth; lying-in. [ 1913 Webster ]

Happy confiners you of other lands,
That shift your soil, and oft 'scape tyrants' hands. Daniel. [ 1913 Webster ]