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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Impound  \Im*pound"\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Impounded};  p.  pr  & 
  vb  n.  {Impounding}.] 
  To  shut  up  or  place  in  an  inclosure  called  a  pound;  hence  to 
  hold  in  the  custody  of  a  court;  as  to  impound  stray  cattle; 
  to  impound  a  document  for  safe  keeping. 
 
  But  taken  and  impounded  as  a  stray,  The  king  of  Scots. 
  --Shak. 




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