Cage, an inclosure of wire, Vicker, etc interwoven in the form of lattices, and used for the confinement of birds, or beasts. The latter were, inancient times, brough to Rome in cages artfully formed of oak, or beech, and covered with boughs, that the creatures, deceived by the appearance of their place of confinement, might fancy themselves in a forest. In France, there are two sorts of cages, viz. high, or singing cages, and low, or dumb cages: those who expose birds to sale, are obliged to put the cocks in the former, and the hens in the latter, that persons may not be deceived by purchasing a hen for a cock.