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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
jail
n 1: a correctional institution used to detain persons who are
in the lawful custody of the government (either accused
persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a
sentence) [syn: jail, jailhouse, gaol, clink,
slammer, poky, pokey]
v 1: lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; "The suspects were
imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated
for the rest of his life" [syn: imprison, incarcerate,
lag, immure, put behind bars, jail, jug, gaol,
put away, remand]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Gaol \Gaol\ (j[=a]l), n. [See Jail.]
A place of confinement, especially for minor offenses or
provisional imprisonment; a jail. [Preferably, and in the
United States usually, written jail.]
[1913 Webster]
Commission of general gaol delivery, an authority conferred
upon judges and others included in it, for trying and
delivering every prisoner in jail when the judges, upon
their circuit, arrive at the place for holding court, and
for discharging any whom the grand jury fail to indict.
[Eng.]
Gaol delivery. (Law) See Jail delivery, under Jail.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Jail \Jail\, v. t.
To imprison. [R.] --T. Adams (1614).
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[Bolts] that jail you from free life. --Tennyson.
[1913 Webster] jailbird
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Jail \Jail\ (j[=a]l), n. [OE. jaile, gail, gayhol, OF. gaole,
gaiole, jaiole, F. ge[^o]le, LL. gabiola, dim. of gabia cage,
for L. cavea cavity, cage. See Cage.]
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. [Written also
gaol.]
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This jail I count the house of liberty. --Milton.
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Jail delivery, the release of prisoners from jail, either
legally or by violence.
Jail delivery commission. See under Gaol.
Jail fever (Med.), typhus fever, or a disease resembling
it, generated in jails and other places crowded with
people; -- called also hospital fever, and ship fever.
Jail liberties, or Jail limits, a space or district
around a jail within which an imprisoned debtor was, on
certain conditions, allowed to go at large. --Abbott.
Jail lock, a peculiar form of padlock; -- called also
Scandinavian lock.
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5. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) |
JAIL. A prison; a place appointed by law for the detention of prisoners. A
jail is an inhabited dwelling-house within the statute of New York, which
makes the malicious burning of an inhabited dwelling-house to be arson. 8
John. 115; see 4 Call, 109. Vide Gaol; Prison.
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Thesaurus Results for Jail:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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Common Misspellings > |
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