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ion of bailing a person accused. Bailment . . . is the saving or delivery of a man out of prison before he hath satisfied the law. Dalton.

The place in court where prisoners are stationed for arraignment, trial, or sentence.

A rustic play; -- called also prisoner's base, prison base, or bars. "To run the country base." Shak.

"The Bastille", formerly a castle or fortress in Paris, used as a prison, especially for political offenders; hence, a rhetorical name for a prison.

u thy body bear." Shak. Hence: To behave; to conduct. Hath he borne himself penitently in prison Shak.

for recruits, to go diligently about in order to get helpers or participators in an enterprise.

Enterprise. "To hinder our beginnings." Shak.

mineral of great hardness, and, when transparent, of much beauty. It occurs in hexagonal prisms, commonly of a green or bluish green color, but also yellow, pink, and white. It is a silicate of aluminium and glucinum (beryllium). The aquamarine is a transparent, sea-green variety used as a gem. The emerald is another…

bar or bolt of iron with sliding shackles, and a lock at the end, to confine the feet of prisoners or offenders, esp. on board of ships. Methought I lay Worse than the mutines in the bilboes. Shak.

, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to bind a prisoner.

ing of two pyramids placed base to base; having a pyramid at each of the extremities of a prism, as in quartz crystals.

The watch of a whole army by night, when in danger of surprise or attack.

A Spanish anarchistic society, many of the members of which were imprisoned in 1883.

A dungeon or dark cell in a prison; a military lock-up or guardroom; -- now commonly with allusion to the cell (the Black Hole) in a fort at Calcutta, into which 146 English prisoners were thrust by the nabob Suraja Dowla on the night of June 20, 17656, and in which 123 of the prisoners died before morning from lack of…

The black sea bass (Centropristis atrarius) of the Atlantic coast. It is excellent food fish; -- locally called also black Harry.

rectangular blocks, each block containing thirty building lots. Such an average block, comprising 282 houses and covering nine acres of ground, exists in Oxford Street. Lond. Quart. Rev.

ven colors into which the rays of light divide themselves, when refracted through a glass prism; the color of the clear sky, or a color resembling that, whether lighter or darker; a pigment having such color. Sometimes, poetically, the sky.

W. Scott. There is indeed a bluff pertinacity which is a proper defense in a moment of surprise. I. Taylor.

A prison; -- originally the name of the old north gate in Oxford, which was used as a prison. [Eng.] Latimer.

An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter. [Obs.] Away with him to prison! lay bolts enough upon him. Shak.