noun. A place of detention, especially for persons who are accused of committing a crime and have not been released on bail or for persons who are serving short sentences after conviction of a misdemeanor.

noun. Detention in a jail.

transitive verb. To detain in a jail.

noun. A prison; a building or place for the confinement of persons arrested for crime or for debt; usually, in the United States, a place of confinement for minor offenses in a county.

To confine in or as if in a jail; imprison.

transitive verb. To imprison.

noun. 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.

noun. the release of prisoners from jail, either legally or by violence.

noun. See under Gaol.

noun. typhus fever, or a disease resembling it, generated in jails and other places crowded with people; -- called also hospital fever, and ship fever.

noun. a space or district around a jail within which an imprisoned debtor was, on certain conditions, allowed to go at large.

noun. undefined

noun. a peculiar form of padlock; -- called also Scandinavian lock.

noun. A place for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody or detention, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.

noun. Confinement in a jail.

noun. school

noun. The condition created by the requirement that a horse claimed in a claiming race not be run at another track for some period of time (usually 30 days).

verb. To imprison.

verb. lock up or confine, in or as in a jail

noun. 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)

"Assuming all judicial systems around the world are basically right and that everyone in jail is supposed to be there, the United States of America (home of the brave and land of the free) is by far the most criminally-infested country in the world, followed only by Russia."

jail liberties  to break jail  

jail limits  

confine  detain  

Bayle  Braille  Dail  Dale  Gael  

asylum  barrack  big house  building  camp  

POW camp  bastille  beleaguer  beset  besiege  

gaol  

jailed  jailing  jails