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.
Confines, wards, and dungeons.
Shak.
The extravagant and erring spirit hies
To his confine.
Shak.