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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
jug
    n 1: a large bottle with a narrow mouth
    2: the quantity contained in a jug [syn: jug, jugful]
    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]
    2: stew in an earthenware jug; "jug the rabbit"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Jug \Jug\, v. i. (Zool.)
   1. To utter a sound resembling this word, as certain birds
      do, especially the nightingale.
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   2. To nestle or collect together in a covey; -- said of
      quails and partridges.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Jug \Jug\ (j[u^]g), n. [Prob. fr. Jug, a corruption of, or
   nickname for, Joanna; cf. 2d Jack, and Jill. See Johannes.]
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   1. A vessel, usually of coarse earthenware, with a swelling
      belly and narrow mouth, and having a handle on one side.
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   2. A pitcher; a ewer. [Eng.]
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   3. A prison; a jail; a lockup. [Slang] --Gay.
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   4. (pl.) A woman's breasts; as, nice jugs. [vulgar slang]
      [PJC]

4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Jug \Jug\ (j[u^]g), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Jugged (j[u^]gd); p.
   pr. & vb. n. Jugging (j[u^]g"g[i^]ng).]
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   1. To seethe or stew, as in a jug or jar placed in boiling
      water; as, to jug a hare.
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   2. To commit to jail; to imprison. [Slang]
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Thesaurus Results for jug:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
adobe, bastille, biscuit, bisque, bowl, brick, calabash, calaboose, can, canteen, carafe, carboy, caster, cement, ceramic ware, ceramics, china, chokey, clink, confine, constrain, cooler, coop, crock, crockery, cruet, cruse, decanter, demijohn, enamelware, ewer, fifth, firebrick, flacon, flagon, flask, flasket, glass, gourd, hipflask, hoosegow, hot-water bottle, immure, incarcerate, jail, jar, jeroboam, lockup, lota, magnum, mussuk, olla, pen, phial, pokey, porcelain, pot, pottery, prison, quod, refractory, slammer, stir, stoup, tile, tiling, urn, vacuum bottle, vase, vial
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