inclosure made of wire, wicker, or the like, interwoven lattice-wise, for the confinement of birds or wild beasts. The word is French, cage, formed from the Italian gaggia, of the Latin cara, which has the same signification: a cævis theatralibus in quibus incidebantur feræ.

In the ancient amphitheatres, the fiercer animals were put in dens under ground, or in iron cages called cara, ready to be let out for sport.

In some prisons there are iron cages for the closer confinement of prisoners. History affords various instances of persons subjected for a series of years to this cruel species of confinement.