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303 words match “BAIL”

BAREFACED a.
Without concealment; undisguised. Hence: Shameless; audacious. "Barefaced treason." J. Baillie.
BIPLICITY n.
The state of being twice folded; reduplication. [R.] Bailey.
BIRTHING n.
Anything added to raise the sides of a ship. Bailey.
BORDLODE n.
ervice formerly required of a tenant, to carry timber from the woods to the lord's house. Bailey. Mozley & W.
BOROUGHMASTER n.
The mayor, governor, or bailiff of a borough.
BOTANOLOGY n.
The science of botany. [Obs.] Bailey.
BOWL v.
turnipsShak. To bowl (a player) out, in cricket, to put out a striker by knocking down a bail or a stump in bowling.
BOYISH a.
ners or opinions; belonging to a boy; childish; trifling; puerile. A boyish, odd conceit. Baillie.
BRILLS n.
The hair on the eyelids of a horse. Bailey.
BROCK n.
A brocket. Bailey.
BURGHMASTER n.
officer who directs and lays out the meres or boundaries for the workmen; -- called also bailiff, and barmaster. [Eng.]
CALID a.
Hot; burning; ardent. [Obs.] Bailey.
CATCHPOLL n.
A bailiff's assistant.
CAUTION n.
Security; guaranty; bail. [R.] The Parliament would yet give his majesty sufficient caution that the war should be prosecuted. Clarendon.
CIMELIARCH n.
A superintendent or keeper of a church's valuables; a churchwarden. [Obs.] Bailey.
CIRCINATE v.
To make a circle around; to encompass. [Obs.] Bailey.
CIRCINATION n.
An orbicular motion. [Obs.] bailey.
CIRCULAR a.
nate in the same digits as the roots themselves; as 5 and 6, whose squares are 25 and 36. Bailey. Barlow. -- Circular points at infinity (Geom.), two imaginary points at infinite distance through which every circle in the plane is, in the theory of curves, imagined to pass. -- Circular polarization. (Min.) See under…
COHIBIT v.
To restrain. [Obs.] Bailey.
COLLATITIOUS a.
Brought together; contributed; done by contributions. [Obs.] Bailey.
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