jail

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.

Detention in a jail.

To detain in a jail.

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.

To imprison.

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.

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

See under Gaol.

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