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▪ I. † ˈconfiner1 Obs.
[f. confine n. or v. (1, 2) + -er1. (Daniel accents conˈfiner.)]
1. One who dwells on the confines; a borderer, neighbour.
1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe (1871) 11 The..Franchises, and privileges she [Yarmouth] is endowed with, beyond all her confiners. 1656Earl of Monmouth Advt. fr. Parnass. 225 We are..become no longer confiners, but inland inhabiters. a1682Sir T. Browne Tracts xii. 187 [He] may be a terrour unto the confiners on that sea.
b. transf. and fig.
1624Wotton Archit. in Reliq. Wotton. (1672) 19 Lime and Wood are insociable, and..unfit Confiners. 1626Bacon Sylva §609 The Participles or Confiners between Plants and Living Creatures, are such chiefly, as are Fixed..as are Oysters, Cockles, and such like.
2. One living within the confines, an inhabitant.
1597Daniel Civ. Wares i. lxix, Happie confiners you of other landes. 1611Shakes. Cymb. iv. ii. 337 The Senate hath stirr'd vp the Confiners, And Gentlemen of Italy.
▪ II. confiner2 rare.|kənˈfaɪnə(r)|
[f. confine v. + -er1.]
One who or that which confines.
1654Whitlock Zootomia 344 Such worth..is so its own Confiner by pious and virtuous Resolves, that it needs no Superviser. |