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Jails
- noun - a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)
- lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"
- Prison
Jaina
- - One of a numerous sect in British India, holding the tenets of Jainism.
Jakes
- noun - a small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate
Jakie
- - A South American striped frog (Pseudis paradoxa), remarkable for having a tadpole larger than the adult, and hence called also paradoxical frog.
Jalap
- - A purgative drug, obtained from the tuberous roots of a Mexican climbing plant ( Ipomoca purga )
- The tubers of the Mexican plant Ipom (or Exogonium purga) of the family Convolvulaceae, a climber much like the morning-glory. The abstract, extract, and powder, prepared from the tubers, are well known purgative (cathartic) medicines, and are also called jalap. Other species of Ipom yield several inferior kinds of jalap, as the Ipom, and Ipom.
Jambe
- unknown - One of a pair of vertical posts or pieces that together form the sides of an opening, as for a door, window, or fireplace.
Jambs
- noun - upright consisting of a vertical side member of a door or window frame
James
- noun - (New Testament) disciple of Jesus; brother of John; author of the Epistle of James in the New Testament
- a New Testament book attributed to Saint James the Apostle
- a river in Virginia that flows east into Chesapeake Bay at Hampton Roads
- a river that rises in North Dakota and flows southward across South Dakota to the Missouri
- a Stuart king of Scotland who married a daughter of Henry VII; when England and France went to war in 1513 he invaded England and died in defeat at Flodden (1473-1513)
- the first Stuart to be king of England and Ireland from 1603 to 1625 and king of Scotland from 1567 to 1625; he was the son of Mary Queen of Scots and he succeeded Elizabeth I; he alienated the British Parliament by claiming the divine right of kings (1566-1625)
- the last Stuart to be king of England and Ireland and Scotland; overthrown in 1688 (1633-1701)
- United States outlaw who fought as a Confederate soldier and later led a band
Jamie
- unknown - a name of a boy or girl