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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \Con*fin"er\, n.
    One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
    
    
  2. \Con"fi`ner\ (? or ?), n.
    One who lives on confines, or near the border of a country; a
    borderer; a near neighbor. [Obs.] --Bacon.
    
          Happy confiners you of other lands, That shift your
          soil, and oft 'scape tyrants' hands.     --Daniel.
    
    
 

 

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