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Imprison :: Imprison (v. t.) To put in prison or jail; To arrest and detain in custody; to confine.

Enjall :: Enjall (v. t.) To put into jail; to imprison.

Jug :: Jug (v. t.) To commit to jail; to imprison.

Incarcerate :: Incarcerate (v. t.) To imprison; to confine in a jail or prison.

Gaol :: Gaol (n.) A place of confinement, especially for minor offenses or provisional imprisonment; a jail..

Congee :: Congee (n.) A jail; a lockup.

Typhus :: Typhus (n.) A contagious continued fever lasting from two to three weeks, attended with great prostration and cerebral disorder, and marked by a copious eruption of red spots upon the body. Also called jail fever, famine fever, putrid fever, spottled fever, etc. See Jail fever, under Jail..

Alcayde :: Alcayde (n.) The warden, or keeper of a jail..

Jailer :: Jailer (n.) The keeper of a jail or prison.

Enjailing :: Enjailing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Enjal.

Calaboose :: Calaboose (n.) A prison; a jail.

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..

Gailer :: Gailer (n.) A jailer.

Garnish :: Garnish (v. t.) A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded by the old prisoners of a newcomer..

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

Tollbooth :: Tollbooth (n.) In Scotland, a burgh jail; hence, any prison, especially a town jail..

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

Lock :: Lock (v. t.) To prevent ingress or access to, or exit from, by fastening the lock or locks of; -- often with up; as, to lock or lock up, a house, jail, room, trunk. etc..

Commit :: Commit (v. t.) To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.

Gaoler :: Gaoler (n.) The keeper of a jail. See Jailer.

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