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One who delivers goods or money to another in trust.

A piece of parchment, or paper, containing a recognizance or bail bond.

ght spots resembling a string of beads. The phenomenon (first fully described by Francis Baily, 1774 -- 1844) is thought to be an effect of irradiation, and of inequalities of the moon's edge.

Embattled. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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

Arrayed for battle; fit or eager for battle; warlike. [Obs.] "In battailous aspect." Milton.

A great-grandfather. [Obs.]

To express deep sorrow for, as by wailing; to lament; to wail over. Hath widowed and unchilded many a one, Which to this hour bewail the injury. Shak.

Such as may, or ought to, be bewailed; lamentable.

One who bewails or laments.

Wailing over; lamenting. -- Be*wail"ing*ly, adv.

The act of bewailing.

flesh, or the lowest coin, a opposed to "white rent", which paid in silver. To levy blackmail, to extort money by threats, as of injury to one's reputation.

One who extorts, or endeavors to extort, money, by black mailing.

The act or practice of extorting money by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation.

The black-tailed deer (Cervus or Cariacus Columbianus) of California and Oregon; also, the mule deer of the Rocky Mountains. See Mule deer.

A large grackle or blackbird (Quiscalus major), found in the Southern United States.

An animal (as a horse or dog) with a short tail. Rag, tag, and bobtail, the rabble.

Having the tail cut short, or naturally short; curtailed; as, a bobtailed horse or dog; a bobtailed coat.

In a flying machine, a tail or rudder, usually fixed, resembling a box kite.