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Sconce :: Sconce (v. t.) To shut up in a sconce; to imprison; to insconce.

Jug :: Jug (v. t.) To commit to jail; to imprison.

Escape :: Escape (v. i.) To get free from that which confines or holds; -- used of persons or things; as, to escape from prison, from arrest, or from slavery; gas escapes from the pipes; electricity escapes from its conductors..

Tollbooth :: Tollbooth (v. t.) To imprison in a tollbooth.

Ransom :: Ransom (n.) The money or price paid for the redemption of a prisoner, or for goods captured by an enemy; payment for freedom from restraint, penalty, or forfeit..

Arraign :: Arraign (v. t.) To call or set as a prisoner at the bar of a court to answer to the matter charged in an indictment or complaint.

Familiar :: Familiar (n.) A confidential officer employed in the service of the tribunal, especially in apprehending and imprisoning the accused..

Commit :: Commit (v. t.) To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.

Liberate :: Liberate (a.) To release from restraint or bondage; to set at liberty; to free; to manumit; to disengage; as, to liberate a slave or prisoner; to liberate the mind from prejudice; to liberate gases..

Little-ease :: Little-ease (n.) An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison..

Bar :: Bar (n.) The place in court where prisoners are stationed for arraignment, trial, or sentence..

Jail :: "Jail (n.) A kind of prison; a building for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding..

Secure :: Secure (v. t.) To make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping; as, to secure a prisoner; to secure a door, or the hatches of a ship..

Escape :: Escape (n.) The unlawful permission, by a jailer or other custodian, of a prisoner's departure from custody..

Habeas Corpus :: Habeas corpus () A writ having for its object to bring a party before a court or judge; especially, one to inquire into the cause of a person's imprisonment or detention by another, with the view to protect the right to personal liberty; also, one to bring a prisoner into court to testify in a pending trial..

Captor :: Captor (n.) One who captures any person or thing, as a prisoner or a prize..

Gaol :: Gaol (n.) A place of confinement, especially for minor offenses or provisional imprisonment; a jail..

Black Hole :: Black hole () A dungeon or dark cell in a prison; a military lock-up or guardroom; -- now commonly with allusion to the cell (the Black Hole) in a fort at Calcutta, into which 146 English prisoners were thrust by the nabob Suraja Dowla on the night of June 20, 17656, and in which 123 of the prisoners died before morning from lack of air..

Counter :: Counter (v. t.) A prison; either of two prisons formerly in London.

Bolt :: Bolt (n.) An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.

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