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nsure meanly or spitefully (as absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent). Spenser.

tree, And baffled so, that all which passed by The picture of his punishment might see. Spenser.

To deliver; to release. [Obs.] Ne none there was to rescue her, ne none to bail. Spenser.

earth . . . is baked with frost. Shak. They bake their sides upon the cold, hard stone. Spenser.

Misery; Let now your bliss be turned into bale. Spenser.

ngage in contradiction; to be in opposition. [Obs.] In strifeful terms with him to balk. Spenser.

To curse; to swear. [Obs.] Spenser.

Pledge; security. [Obs.] Spenser. Band saw, a saw in the form of an endless steel belt, with teeth on one edge, running over wheels.

A bit for a horse. [Obs.] Spenser.

indicates - or foreshadows changes of the weather, as a deep vial of liquid holding in suspension some substance which rises and falls with atmospheric changes.

disconcerted or put out of countenance. [Obs.] His countenance was bold and bashed not. Spenser.

Shameless; unblushing. [Obs.] Spenser.

rtment provided in the houses of persons of importance, where assemblies were held for dispensing justice; and hence, any large hall used for this purpose.

To attack; to bait. [Obs.] Spenser.

Prepared for battle; combatant; warlike. Spenser. -- n.

An inclosure with mud or stone walls, for keeping cattle; a fortified inclosure. [Obs.] Spenser.

To bathe. [Obs.] Spenser.

a chaplet; hence, a catalogue in general. On Fame's eternal beadroll worthy to be field. Spenser. It is quite startling, on going over the beadroll of English worthies, to find how few are directly represented in the male line. Quart. Rev.

To sustain, or be answerable for, as blame, expense, responsibility, etc. He shall bear their iniquities. Is. liii. 11. Somewhat that will bear your charges. Dryden.

In a balloon, the braced wooden ring attached to the suspension ropes at the bottom, functionally analogous to the keel of a ship.