Dungeon - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: dungeonDungeon
Dungeon, such an underground prison as was formerly placed in the strongest part of a fortress; a close prison dark or subterraneous....
black hole
A dungeon or dark cell in a prison a military lock up or guardroom now commonly with allusion to the cell the Black Hole in a fort at Calcutta called the Black Hole of Calcutta into which 146 English prisoners were thrust by the nabob Suraja Dowla on the night of June 20 1765 and in which 123 of the prisoners died before morning from lack of air...
Delivery
The act of delivering from restraint rescue release liberation as the delivery of a captive from his dungeon...
dungeon
A close dark prison commonly under ground as if the lower apartments of the donjon or keep of a castle these being used as prisons...
I
I the ninth letter of the English alphabet takes its form from the Phoelignician through the Latin and the Greek The Phoelignician letter was probably of Egyptian origin Its original value was nearly the same as that of the Italian I or long e as in mete Etymologically I is most closely related to e y j g as in dint dent beverage L bibere E kin AS cynn E thin AS thornynne E dominion donjon dungeon...
VerbarOubliette
A dungeon with an opening only at the top found in some old castles and other strongholds into which persons condemned to perpetual imprisonment or to perish secretly were thrust or lured to fall...
Cloere
Cloere, a prison or dungeon, Cowel....
Massamore or MassyMore
Massamore or MassyMore, massamore, an ancient name for a dungeon, derived from the Moorish language, perhaps as far back as the time of the Crusades....
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