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who executes cruel orders of a superior without protest or pity; -- sometimes applied to bailiffs, constables, etc. Thackeray. With unabated ardor the vindictive man of law and his myrmidons pressed forward. W. H. Ainsworth.

is now an ordinary process of courts of equity, resorted to for the purpose of obtaining bail, or security to abide a decree. Kent.

The state of being neighbors. [R.] J. Bailie.

A thief who steals by means of a hook; also, a bailiff who hooks or seizes malefactors. Shak.

new and contrary law, instead of by expressly abrogating or repealing the old one. [Obs.] Bailey.

The act of stopping up, as a passage. [Obs.] Bailey.

Workmanship. [Obs.] Bailey.

The act of helping or aiding; help. [Obs.] Bailey.

A catering; a buying of provisions. [Obs.] Bailey.

The state of being best. [R.] Bailey.

A vessel of wood or tin, etc., usually cylindrical and having a bail, -- used esp. for carrying liquids, as water or milk, etc.; a bucket. It may, or may not, have a cover. Shak.

Skill in all kinds of work or business; craft. [R.] Bailey.

Sufferable; tolerable; endurable. [Obs.] Bailey.

e anciently used in England; also, a large wax candle formerly set upon the altar. [Obs.] Bailey.

To rub over. Bailey.

The act of looking sharply. [Obs.] Bailey.

A constable's or bailiff's staff; -- so called from its shape. [Obs.] Chapman.

A bailiff. [Cant, Eng.] [Obs.] Swift.

The lesser woodpecker. [Obs.] Bailey.

the debtor and creditor by a thing being so delivered or deposited, forming a species of bailment; also, that which is so delivered or deposited; something put in pawn.