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offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding. [Written also gaol.] This jail I count the house of liberty. Milton. Jail bird, a prisoner; one who has been confined in prison. [Slang] - - Jail delivery, the release of prisoners from jail, either legally or by violence. -- Jail delivery commission. See…

The keeper of a jail or prison. [Written also jailor, gaoler.]

To put into jail; to imprison. [R.] Donne.

eshing, or purifying; to ventilate; as, to air a room. It were good wisdom . . . that the jail were aired. Bacon. Were you but riding forth to air yourself. Shak.

The warden, or keeper of a jail.

A prison; a jail. [Local, U. S.]

A jail. See Calaboose.

To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison. These two were commited. Clarendon.

A jail; a lockup. [India]

urpose of defraying the expenses to which counties are liable, such as repairing bridges, jails, etc. [Eng.] -- County seat, a county town. [U.S.] -- County sessions, the general quarter sessions of the peace for each county, held four times a year. [Eng.] -- County town, the town of a county, where the county business…

Judicial or penal safe-keeping. Jailer, take him to thy custody. Shak.

Imprisonment; restraint of the person; custody by a jailer; duress. Shak. "Durance vile." Burns. In durance, exile, Bedlam or the mint. Pope.

To put in jail; to imprison. [Obs.] Shak.

The unlawful permission, by a jailer or other custodian, of a prisoner's departure from custody.

A jailer. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A place of confinement, especially for minor offenses or provisional imprisonment; a jail. [Preferably, and in the United States usually, written jail.] Commission of general gaol delivery, an authority conferred upon judges and others included in it, for trying and delivering every prisoner in jail when the judges, up…

The keeper of a jail. See Jailer.

A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded by the old prisoners of a newcomer. [Cant] Fielding. Garnish bolt (Carp.), a bolt with a chamfered or faceted head. Knight.

To put in prison or jail; To arrest and detain in custody; to confine. He imprisoned was in chains remediles. Spenser.

To imprison; to confine in a jail or priso