Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
bailey . - noun See
bailie . - noun See
baily .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Bailiff.
- noun Scot. Same as
Bailie .
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- noun obsolete The
jurisdiction of abailie orbailiff ; abailiwick .
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Examples
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By the by, I should say that "baillie" seems to correspond to what we call a member of the city council.
Sunny Memories Of Foreign Lands, Volume 1 Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853
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September 6th, 2009 • posts i've written image credit: liz baillie
it’s over, for you {the mixcast} / what consumes me, bud caddell 2009
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Earl to his baillie of Kildrummie: from this epistle, so characteristic of the politic Earl of Mar, it was manifest that his own followers were more tardy in the field than those of the other chieftains of the
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. Mrs. Thomson
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Edinburgh baillie, came puffing down to the landing-place to receive us.
Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume I. John M'lean
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Glasgow baillie who, replying to the toast of the "Law," remarked that
The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann
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Number one nag with a pailful of water, swigging away like a Glasgow baillie at a bowl of punch.
Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray
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Sir Robert was chief baillie in Musselburgh in 1745, in which same town Handasyde worked as a mason.
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Robert Fraser, Advocate, for Robert Rose, late baillie of
An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America 1893
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Charles Ogilvy, merchant and late baillie of Montrose 200
An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America 1893
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Advocate, for John McIntosh, baillie of Invernes, conform to deputation 100
An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America 1893
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