| Jug 1. (n.) A vessel, usually of coarse earthenware, with a swelling belly and narrow mouth, and having a handle on one side. 2. (n.) A pitcher; a ewer. 3. (n.) A prison; a jail; a lockup. 4. (v. t.) To seethe or stew, as in a jug or jar placed in boiling water; as, to jug a hare. 5. (v. t.) To commit to jail; to imprison. 6. (v. i.) To utter a sound resembling this word, as certain birds do, especially the nightingale. 7. (v. i.) To nestle or collect together in a covey; -- said of quails and partridges. Thesaurus Entries adobe, bastille, biscuit, bisque, bowl, brick, calabash, calaboose, can, canteen, carafe, carboy, caster, cement, ceramic ware, ceramics, china, chokey, clink, confine, constrain, cooler, coop, crock, crockery, cruet, cruse, decanter, demijohn, enamelware, ewer, fifth, firebrick, flacon, flagon, flask, flasket, glass, gourd, hipflask, hoosegow, hot-water bottle, immure, incarcerate, jail, jar, jeroboam, lockup, lota, magnum, mussuk, olla, pen, phial, pokey, porcelain, pot, pottery, prison, quod, refractory, slammer, stir, stoup, tile, tiling, urn, vacuum bottle, vase, vial |