Pris"on*er (?), n. [F. prisonnier.]
1. One who is
confined in a prison. Piers Plowman.
2. A person under arrest, or in custody, whether in prison or
not; a person held in involuntary restraint; a captive; as, a
prisoner at the bar of a court. Bouvier.
Prisoner of Hope thou
art, -- look up and sing.
Keble. Prisoner's base. See Base, n.,
24.
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