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a benefice upon a title, and B instituted and admitted upon the presentation of another. Bailey.

nce in court, or for his payment of a debt, or for performance of some act; a bondsman; a bail. He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it. Prov. xi. 15.

To yield; to render or deliver up; to give up; as, a principal surrendered by his bail, a fugitive from justice by a foreign state, or a particular estate by the tenant thereof to him in remainder or reversion.

A cod, or pod, as of beans or pease. [Obs.] Bailey.

Affectation of sublimity; bombast. [Obs.] Bailey.

To shift; to practice evasion; to use subterfuges; to shuffle. [R.] Bailey.

mary duty in England, formerly paid to tithingmen for liberty to dig in tin mines. [Obs.] Bailey. -- Tin plate, thin sheet iron coated with tin. -- Tin pyrites. See Stannite.

The act of swimming over. [Obs.] Bailey.

Abounding in tresses. J. Baillie.

Short and ready; fleet; as, a tride pace; -- a term used by sportsmen. Bailey.

An old measure of wheat equal to two thirds of a bushel. Bailey.

Tumulous. [R.] Bailey.

The quality or state of being tumulous; hilliness. [R.] Bailey.

Full of small hills or mounds; hilly; tumulose. [R.] Bailey.

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estine manner; hence, by fraud; unfairly. Such mean revenge, committed underhand. Dryden. Baillie Macwheeble provided Janet, underhand, with meal for their maintenance. Sir W. Scott.

Pledge; security; bail. See Mortgage. Vadium vivum Etym: [LL.] (Law), a living pledge, which exists where an estate is granted until a debt is paid out of its proceeds.

Fawning or obsequious behavior; servility. [R.] Bailey.

The operation of gathering grapes. [Obs.] Bailey.

A piece of plank two yard Bailey.