jug

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A large, often rounded vessel of earthenware, glass, or metal with a small mouth, a handle, and usually a stopper or cap.
2. n. The amount that a jug can hold.
3. n. A small pitcher.
4. n. Slang A jail.
5. n. Vulgar Slang A woman's breasts.
6. v. To stew (a hare, for example) in an earthenware jug or jar.
7. v. Slang To put into jail.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A vessel, usually made of earthenware, metal, or glass, of various sizes and shapes, and generally provided with a handle or ear, used for holding and conveying liquors; a drinking-vessel; a pitcher; a ewer; in the United States, specifically, an earthenware vessel with a swelling or a cylindrical body, a handle, and a narrow neck and orifice, usually stopped by a cork. As a quantity of ale or beer, a jug is usually a pint.
2. n. A prison; a jail: often called the stone jug.
3. n. A low woman.
4. To put into a jug; cook by putting into a jug, and this into boiling water.
5. To commit to jail; imprison.
6. To nestle together; collect in a covey, as partridges: sometimes used as transitive with reflexive pronoun.
7. To utter a particular sound resembling this word, as certain birds do, especially the nightingale.
8. n. A sound fancied to resemble the note uttered by the nightingale and some other birds.
9. n. An act of worship by a Brahman supposed to give him preternatural power.

Wiktionary

1. n. A serving vessel or container, circular in cross-section and typically higher than it is wide, with a relatively small mouth or spout, a handle and often a stopper or top.
2. n. The amount that a jug can hold.
3. n. slang Jail.
4. n. vulgar, slang A woman's breasts.
5. n. New Zealand A kettle.
6. v. transitive To stew in an earthenware jug etc.
7. v. transitive, slang To put into jail.
8. v. intransitive To utter a sound like "jug", as certain birds do, especially the nightingale.
9. v. intransitive To nestle or collect together in a covey.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A vessel, usually of coarse earthenware, with a swelling belly and narrow mouth, and having a handle on one side.
2. n. engraving A pitcher; a ewer.
3. n. Slang A prison; a jail; a lockup.
4. n. vulgar slang A woman's breasts.
5. v. To seethe or stew, as in a jug or jar placed in boiling water.
6. v. Slang To commit to jail; to imprison.
7. v. (Zoöl.) To utter a sound resembling this word, as certain birds do, especially the nightingale.
8. v. To nestle or collect together in a covey; -- said of quails and partridges.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the quantity contained in a jug
2. v. stew in an earthenware jug
3. n. a large bottle with a narrow mouth
4. v. lock up or confine, in or as in a jail