Hypertext Webster Gateway: "confinement"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Confinement \Con*fine"ment\, n.
1. Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of
liberty; seclusion.
The mind hates restraint, and is apt to fancy itself
under confinement when the sight is pent up.
--Addison.
2. Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by
childbirth; lying-in.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
confinement
n 1: concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to
the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"
[syn: {parturiency}, {labor}, {labour}, {lying-in}, {travail},
{childbed}]
2: the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining
them
3: the state of being confined; "he was held in confinement"
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