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<cs><col>Jail bird</col>, <cd>a prisoner; one who has been confined in prison.</cd> <mark>[Slang]</mark> -- <col>Jail delivery</col>, <cd>the release of prisoners from jail, either legally or by violence.</cd> -- <col>Jail delivery commission</col>. <cd>See under <er>Gaol</er>.</cd> -- <col>Jail fever</col> <fld>(Med.)</fld>, <cd>typhus fever, or a disease resembling it, generated in jails and other places crowded with people; -- called also <altname>hospital fever</altname>, and <altname>ship fever</altname>.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Jail liberties</col>, &or; <col>Jail limits</col></mcol>, <cd>a space or district around a jail within which an imprisoned debtor was, on certain conditions, allowed to go at large. <i>Abbott</i>.</cd> -- <col>Jail lock</col>, <cd>a peculiar form of padlock; -- called also <altname>Scandinavian lock</altname>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Jail</h1> <Xpage=796>

<hw>Jail</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To imprison.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>T. Adams (1614).</i>

<blockquote>[Bolts] that <b>jail</b> you from free life. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Jailer</h1> <Xpage=796>

<hw>Jail"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>jailer</ets>, <ets>gailer</ets>, OF. <ets>geolier</ets>, F. <ets>ge\'93lier</ets>. See <er>Jail</er>.]</ety> <def>The keeper of a jail or prison.</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>jailor</asp>, <asp>gaoler</asp>.]</altsp>

<h1>Jain, Jaina</h1> <Xpage=796>

<hw><hw>Jain</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Jai"na</hw>,<hw> <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Skr. <ets>Jaina</ets>, fr. <ets>Jina</ets>, a proper name, fr. <ets>jina</ets> victorious.]</ety> <def>One of a numerous sect in British India, holding the tenets of Jainism.</def>

<h1>Jainism</h1> <Xpage=796>

<hw>Jain"ism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The heterodox Hindoo religion, of which the most striking features are the exaltation of saints or holy mortals, called <i>jins</i>, above the ordinary Hindoo gods, and the denial of the divine origin and infallibility of the Vedas. It is intermediate between Brahmanism and Buddhism, having some things in common with each.</def>

<h1>Jairou</h1> <Xpage=796>

<hw>Jai*rou"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Native name.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>The ahu or Asiatic gazelle.</def>

<h1>Jak</h1> <Xpage=796>

<hw>Jak</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>see Ils <er>Jack</er>.</def>

<h1>Jakes</h1> <Xpage=796>

<hw>Jakes</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Prob. fr. F. <ets>Jacques</ets>, the proper name. See 2d <er>Jack</er>.]</ety> <def>A privy.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Jakie</h1> <Xpage=796>

<hw>Ja"kie</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A South American striped frog (<spn>Pseudis paradoxa</spn>), remarkable for having a tadpole larger than the adult, and hence called also <altname>paradoxical frog</altname>.</def>

<h1>Jako</h1> <Xpage=796>

<hw>Jak"o</hw> <tt>(j&acr;k"&osl;)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>An African parrot (<spn>Psittacus erithacus</spn>), very commonly kept as a cage bird; -- called also <altname>gray parrot</altname>.</def>

<h1>Jakwood</h1> <Xpage=796>

<hw>Jak"wood`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Jackwood</er>.</def>

<h1>Jalap</h1> <Xpage=796>

<hw>Jal"ap</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F., fr. Sp. <ets>jalapa</ets>; -- so called from <ets>Jalapa</ets>, a town in Mexico, whence it was first obtained.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>The tubers of the Mexican plant <spn>Ipom\'d2a purga</spn> (or <spn>Exogonium purga</spn>), a climber much like the morning-glory. The abstract, extract, and powder, prepared from the tubers, are well known purgative medicines. Other species of Ipom\'d2a yield several inferior kinds of jalap, as the <spn>I. Orizabensis</spn>, and <spn>I. tuberosa</spn>.</def>

<cs><col>False jalap</col>, <cd>the root of <spn>Mirabilis Jalapa</spn>, four-o'clock, or marvel of Peru.</cd></cs>

<h1>Jalapic</h1> <Xpage=796>