confine sb. (pl. is stressed “co'nfines” in senses 1 and 2; sing. always “confi'ne,” but usually in sense 4, to which the few instances of pl. stressed “confi'nes” possibly belong)
1.
pl. boundaries, bounds
Rom. III. i. 6
“when he enters the
confines of a tavern.”
2.
pl. region, territory
R2 I. iii. 137
“our quiet c-s,”
R3 IV. iv. 3
“in these c-s . . . have
I lurk'd,”
Cæs. III. i. 272;
fig.
John IV. ii. 246
“this of blood and
breath.”
3.
confinement,
limitation
Oth. I. ii. 27
“Put into
circumscription and confine,”
Compl. 265.
4.
place of confinement,
prison Tp. IV. i. 121
Spirits, which . . . I
have from their c-s call'd*,
Ham. I. i. 155*
“hies To his confine,”
II. ii. 256
“confines, wards, and
dungeons,”
Ant. III. v. 13.