n. [ OE. jaile, gail, gayhol, OF. gaole, gaiole, jaiole, F. geôle, LL. gabiola, dim. of gabia cage, for L. cavea cavity, cage. See Cage. ] 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. [ Written also gaol. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

This jail I count the house of liberty. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Jail delivery, the release of prisoners from jail, either legally or by violence. --
Jail delivery commission. See under Gaol. --
Jail fever (Med.), typhus fever, or a disease resembling it, generated in jails and other places crowded with people; -- called also hospital fever, and ship fever. --
Jail liberties, or
Jail limits, a space or district around a jail within which an imprisoned debtor was, on certain conditions, allowed to go at large. Abbott. --
Jail lock, a peculiar form of padlock; -- called also Scandinavian lock. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To imprison. [ R. ] T. Adams (1614). [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Bolts ] that jail you from free life. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

A prisoner; one is in prison or who has been confined in prison. [ Slang ] [ PJC ]

n. an escape from jail; as, five prisoners escaped in a coordinated jailbreak.
Syn. -- break, breakout, gaolbreak, prisonbreak, prison-breaking. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. placed in a prison; -- of people.
Syn. -- captive, confined, imprisoned. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. jailer, gailer, OF. geolier, F. geôlier. See Jail. ] The keeper of a jail or prison. [ Written also jailor, gaoler. ]

n. The act or process of putting someone in prison or in jail as a lawful punishment.
Syn. -- imprisonment. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. of or pertaining to Jainism; as, Jain gods.
Syn. -- Jainist. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } prop. n. [ Skr. Jaina, fr. Jina, a proper name, fr. jina victorious. ] One of a numerous sect in British India, holding the tenets of Jainism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The heterodox Hindu religion, founded in the 6th century as a revolt against Hinduism; its most striking features are the exaltation of saints or holy mortals, called jins, above the ordinary Hindu gods, and the denial of a supreme being and of the divine origin and infallibility of the Vedas. Also, the sect comprising those adhering to Jainism. Jainism believes in immortality and the transmigration of the soul. It is intermediate between Brahmanism and Buddhism, having some things in common with each. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]