Bride″well (�), n. A house of correction for the confinement of disorderly persons; — so called from a hospital built in 1553 near St. Bride's (orBridget's) well, in London, which was subsequently a penal workhouse.
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Webster's Dictionary 1913
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.