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Capable of being spit out. [Obs.] Bailey.

Half proof; evidence from the testimony of a single witness. [Obs.] Bailey.

Admitting of burial. [Obs.] Bailey.

Something that separates; a hedge; a fence. [R.] Bailey.

Formerly, in England, an officer nearly answering to the more modern bailiff of the hundred; also, an officer whose duty was to attend on the king, and on the lord high steward in court, to arrest traitors and other offenders. He is now called sergeant-at-arms, and two of these officers, by allowance of the sovereign,…

ansitive verb. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slippered pantaloon. Shak. Here the Baillie shifted and fidgeted about in his seat. Sir W. Scott.

The act or process of drying. [R.] Bailey.

Relating to a seal; used in sealing. [Obs.] Bailey.

Made of fine wheat. [Obs.] Bailey.

To sob with convulsions. [Obs.] Bailey.

The blades of green or barley. [Obs.] Bailey.

ation, etc. -- Special agency, an agency confined to some particular matter. -- Special bail, Bail above, or Bail to the action (Law), sureties who undertake that, if the defendant is convicted, he shall satisfy the plaintiff, or surrender himself into custody. Tomlins. Wharton (Law Dict.). -- Special constable. See…

One who treats of, or collects, seeds. Bailey.

Bearing ears, or spikes; spicate. [Obs.] Bailey.

The state of having, or being full of, ears like corn. [R.] Bailey.

a. & n. from Sponge, v. Sponging house (Eng. Law), a bailiff's or other house in which debtors are put before being taken to jail, or until they compromise with their creditors. At these houses extortionate charges are commonly made for food, lodging, etc.

A material article of an agreement; an undertaking in the nature of bail taken in the admiralty courts; a bargain. Bouvier. Wharton.

A stock of breeding mares. [Written also strode.] [Obs.] Bailey.

A shaft or gallery to drain a mine. [Local, Eng.] Bailey.

One of the three pointed rods stuck in the ground to form a wicket and support the bails.