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A game played on an oblong board, having, at one end, cups or arches into or through which balls are to be driven by a rod held in the hand of the player.

One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel. [U.S.]

One who takes care of baggage; a camp follower. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

A commercial traveler; one employed to solicit orders for manufacturers and tradesmen. Thackeray.

One who plays on a bagpipe; a piper. Shak.

One of the minute bodies seen in the divided nucleoli of some Infusoria after conjugation.

One of several lepidopterous insects which construct, in the larval state, a baglike case which they carry about for protection. One species (Platoeceticus Gloveri) feeds on the orange tree. See Basket worm.

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

One who bails or lades.

cially, a chief officer, magistrate, or keeper, as of a county, town, hundred, or castle; one to whom power Abbott. Lausanne is under the canton of Berne, governed by a bailiff sent every three years from the senate. Addison.

A delivery of goods or money by one person to another in trust, for some special purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed. Blackstone.

One who delivers goods or money to another in trust.

The name of two Mohammedan festivals, of which one is held at the close of the fast called Ramadan, and the other seventy days after the fast.

To stop to take a portion of food and drink for refreshment of one's self or one's beasts, on a journey. Evil news rides post, while good news baits. Milton. My lord's coach conveyed me to Bury, and thence baiting aEvelyn.

One who baits; a tormentor.

One whose business it is to bake bread, biscuit, etc.

An equality between the sums total of the two sides of an account; as, to bring one's accounts to a balance; -- also, the excess on either side; as, the balance of an account. " A balance at the banker's. " Thackeray. I still think the balance of probabilities leans towards the account given in the text. J. Peile.…

One who balances, or uses a balance.

A broad belt, sometimes richly ornamented, worn over one shoulder, across the breast, and under the opposite arm; less properly, any belt. [Also spelt bawdrick.] A radiant baldric o'er his shoulder tied Sustained the sword that glittered at his side. Pope.

One of the beams connecting the successive supports of a trestle bridge or bateau bridge.