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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..

Support :: Support (v. t.) A attend as an honorary assistant; as, a chairman supported by a vice chairman; O'Connell left the prison, supported by his two sons..

Emprison :: Emprison (v. t.) See Imprison.

Bastile Bastille :: Bastile Bastille (n.) The Bastille, formerly a castle or fortress in Paris, used as a prison, especially for political offenders; hence, a rhetorical name for a prison..

Cartel :: Cartel (n.) An agreement between belligerents for the exchange of prisoners.

Imprisoned :: Imprisoned (imp. & p. p.) of Impriso.

Escape :: Escape (v. i.) To get free from that which confines or holds; -- used of persons or things; as, to escape from prison, from arrest, or from slavery; gas escapes from the pipes; electricity escapes from its conductors..

Bail :: Bail (n.) The person or persons who procure the release of a prisoner from the custody of the officer, or from imprisonment, by becoming surely for his appearance in court..

Quod :: Quod (n.) A quadrangle or court, as of a prison; hence, a prison..

Incarcerate :: Incarcerate (a.) Imprisoned.

Caitiff :: Caitiff (n.) A captive; a prisoner.

Immure :: Immure (v. t.) To inclose whithin walls, or as within walls; hence, to shut up; to imprison; to incarcerate..

Unbind :: Unbind (v. t.) To remove a band from; to set free from shackles or fastenings; to unite; to unfasten; to loose; as, unbind your fillets; to unbind a prisoner's arms; to unbind a load..

Cell :: Cell (n.) A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit..

Prisoner :: Prisoner (n.) One who is confined in a prison.

Sconce :: Sconce (v. t.) To shut up in a sconce; to imprison; to insconce.

Warden :: Warden (n.) An officer who keeps or guards; a keeper; as, the warden of a prison..

Engaol :: Engaol (v. t.) To put in jail; to imprison.

Escape :: Escape (n.) The unlawful permission, by a jailer or other custodian, of a prisoner's departure from custody..

Black Hole :: Black hole () A dungeon or dark cell in a prison; a military lock-up or guardroom; -- now commonly with allusion to the cell (the Black Hole) in a fort at Calcutta, into which 146 English prisoners were thrust by the nabob Suraja Dowla on the night of June 20, 17656, and in which 123 of the prisoners died before morning from lack of air..

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