prison limits

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

1.That which terminates, circumscribes, restrains, or confines; the bound, border, or edge; the utmost extent; as, the limit of a walk, of a town, of a country; the limits of human knowledge or endeavor. [1913 Webster]

As eager of the chase, the maid Beyond the forest's verdant limits strayed.— Pope.[1913 Webster]

2.The space or thing defined by limits. [1913 Webster]

The archdeacon hath divided it Into three limits very equally.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

3.That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent. [1913 Webster]

The dateless limit of thy dear exile.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

The limit of your lives is out.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

4.A restriction; a check; a curb; a hindrance. [1913 Webster]

I prithee, give no limits to my tongue.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

5.(Logic & Metaph.) A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic; a differentia. [1913 Webster]

6.(Math.) A determinate quantity, to which a variable one continually approaches, and may differ from it by less than any given difference, but to which, under the law of variation, the variable can never become exactly equivalent. [1913 Webster]

Elastic limit. See under Elastic.

Prison limits, a definite, extent of space in or around a prison, within which a prisoner has liberty to go and come.

Syn: Boundary; border; edge; termination; restriction; bound; confine. [1913 Webster]