Available Definitions:
1) n. - A place where persons are confined, or restrained of personal liberty; hence, a place or state o/ confinement, restraint, or safe custody.
2) n. - Specifically, a building for the safe custody or confinement of criminals and others committed by lawful authority.
3) v. t. - To imprison; to shut up in, or as in, a prison; to confine; to restrain from liberty.
4) v. t. - To bind (together); to enchain.