BPage 23
- English Word Bailey Definition The space immediately within the outer wall of a castle or fortress.
- English Word Bailey Definition A prison or court of justice; -- used in certain proper names; as, the Old Bailey in London; the New Bailey in Manchester.
- English Word Bailie Definition An officer in Scotland, whose office formerly corresponded to that of sheriff, but now corresponds to that of an English alderman.
- English Word Bailiff Definition Originally, a person put in charge of something especially, a chief officer, magistrate, or keeper, as of a county, town, hundred, or castle; one to whom power/ of custody or care are intrusted.
- English Word Bailiff Definition A sheriff's deputy, appointed to make arrests, collect fines, summon juries, etc.
- English Word Bailiff Definition An overseer or under steward of an estate, who directs husbandry operations, collects rents, etc.
- English Word Bailiffwick Definition See Bailiwick.
- English Word Bailing Definition of Bail
- English Word Bailiwick Definition The precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction; the limits of a bailiff's authority.
- English Word Baillie Definition Bailiff.
- English Word Baillie Definition Same as Bailie.
- English Word Bailment Definition The action of bailing a person accused.
- English Word Bailment Definition A delivery of goods or money by one person to another in trust, for some special purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed.
- English Word Bailor Definition One who delivers goods or money to another in trust.
- English Word Bailpiece Definition A piece of parchment, or paper, containing a recognizance or bail bond.
- English Word Bain Definition A bath; a bagnio.
- English Word Bain-marie Definition A vessel for holding hot water in which another vessel may be heated without scorching its contents; -- used for warming or preparing food or pharmaceutical preparations.
- English Word Bairam Definition The name of two Mohammedan festivals, of which one is held at the close of the fast called Ramadan, and the other seventy days after the fast.
- English Word Bairn Definition A child.
- English Word Baisemains Definition Respects; compliments.