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Making great. [R.] Bailey.

Consisting of hail; abounding in hail. [R.] Bailey.

A strong and offensive smell; rancidity. [R.] Bailey.

A manager of a farm, or overseer of any work; a reeve; a manorial bailiff. [Scot.] Their children were horsewhipped by the grieve. Sir W. Scott.

ecomes a perpetual charge upon the land. -- Ground ash. (Bot.) See Groutweed. -- Ground bailiff (Mining), a superintendent of mines. Simmonds. -- Ground bait, bits of bread, boiled barley or worms, etc., thrown into the water to collect the fish, Wallon. -- Ground bass or base (Mus.), fundamental base; a fundamenta…

Besprinkled with drops, or droplike spots. Bailey.

Government by a woman, female power; gyneocracy. Bailey.

h is held in the hand when used or moved, as the haft of a sword, the knob of a door, the bail of a kettle, etc.

Covered with herbs. [Obs.] Bailey.

Sacred writing. [R.] Bailey.

cts and is characterized by an elevated style avoiding all meretricious display. -- High bailiff, the chief bailiff. -- High Church, and Low Church, two ecclesiastical parties in the Church of England and the Protestant Episcopal Church. The high- churchmen emphasize the doctrine of the apostolic succession, and hold…

A servant; a farm laborer; a peasant; a hind. [Obs.] Bailiff, herd, nor other hine. Chaucer.

A bailment by which the use of a thing, or the services and labor of a person, are contracted for at a certain price or reward. Story.

Sounding dreadfully; uttering a terrible sound. [Obs.] Bailey.

One who has the jurisdiction of a hundred; and sometimes, a bailiff of a hundred. Blount. Cowell.

Pardonable. [Obs.] Bailey.

Incapable of weeping. [Obs.] Bailey.

Capable of being obtained or moved by petition. [Obs.] Bailey.

The act of pawning or pledging; the state of being pawned. [Obs.] Bailey.

Incorporeality. [Obs.] Bailey.