Definition of jail

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"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..

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Durance :: Durance (n.) Imprisonment; restraint of the person; custody by a jailer; duress. Shak.
Escape :: Escape (n.) The unlawful permission, by a jailer or other custodian, of a prisoner's departure from custody..
Gailer :: Gailer (n.) A jailer.
Jug :: Jug (v. t.) To commit to jail; to imprison.
Alcayde :: Alcayde (n.) The warden, or keeper of a jail..
Jail :: Jail (v. t.) To imprison.
Calaboose :: Calaboose (n.) A prison; a jail.
Jailer :: Jailer (n.) The keeper of a jail or prison.
Incarcerate :: Incarcerate (v. t.) To imprison; to confine in a jail or prison.
Gaol :: Gaol (n.) A place of confinement, especially for minor offenses or provisional imprisonment; a jail..
Typhus :: Typhus (n.) A contagious continued fever lasting from two to three weeks, attended with great prostration and cerebral disorder, and marked by a copious eruption of red spots upon the body. Also called jail fever, famine fever, putrid fever, spottled fever, etc. See Jail fever, under Jail..
Gaoler :: Gaoler (n.) The keeper of a jail. See Jailer.
Enjailed :: Enjailed (imp. & p. p.) of Enjal.
Tollbooth :: Tollbooth (n.) In Scotland, a burgh jail; hence, any prison, especially a town jail..
Engaol :: Engaol (v. t.) To put in jail; to imprison.
Commit :: Commit (v. t.) To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
Jug :: Jug (n.) A prison; a jail; a lockup.
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..
Enjailing :: Enjailing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Enjal.
Enjall :: Enjall (v. t.) To put into jail; to imprison.
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