- the act of confining.
- the state of being confined.
- the lying-in of a woman in childbed; accouchement; childbirth.
- incarceration in a guardhouse or prison while awaiting trial or as a punishment (distinguished from arrest).
- the act of confining or the state of being confined
- the period from the onset of labour to the birth of a child
- physics another name for containment (def. 3)
