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 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. [Written also gaol.]
    This jail I count the house of liberty.   --Milton.
 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.