Definition of "confine"

Where your gloomy bounds / Confine with heaven

1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,

Betwixt heaven and earth and skies there stands a place / Confining on all three.

1717, John Dryden, “Book XII”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]

‘Why, Sir, to be sure, such parts of Sclavonia as confine with Germany, will borrow German words; and such parts as confine with Tartary will borrow Tartar words.’

1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford, published 2008, page 467

Now let not nature's hand / Keep the wild flood confined! let order die!

c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene i]

He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme.

1680, John Dryden, Ovid’s Epistles translated by several hands, London: Jacob Tonson, Preface

She says for you to bring her a slice of cake,A bottle of the best wine,And not to forget the fair young ladyThat did release you from close confine.

a. 1917, anonymous, “Lord Bateman” (folk song) as published in Bertrand Harris Bronson (1959) The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads, vol. 1, p. 419