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Journeying; itinerant; -- formerly applied to judges who went on circuit and to bailiffs at large. Mozley & W.

cord, esp. of amercements or penalties set down in the rolls of court to be levied by the bailiff, or other officer. Cowell. Estreat of a recognizance, the extracting or taking out a forfeited recognizance from among the other records of the court, for the purpose of a prosecution in another court, or it may be in the…

Inclined to eat; hungry; voracious. [R.] Bailey. "Poor, but esurient." Carlyle.

To investigate. [Obs.] Bailey.

The act of heaping up. [Obs.] Bailey.

Agitation. [Obs.] Bailey.

Deprivation of life or of spirits. [R.] Bailey.

Act of plowing; also, act of writing. [Obs.] Bailey.

Luxation; the dislocation of a joint. Bailey.

An objection, oral or written, taken, in the course of an action, as to bail or security; or as to the decision of a judge, in the course of a trail, or in his charge to a jury; or as to lapse of time, or scandal, impertinence, or insufficiency in a pleading; also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor exce…

Liable to torment. [R.] Bailey.

A keeping watch. [Obs.] Bailey.

Very desirable. [Obs.] Bailey.

To deprive of bones; to take out the bones of; to bone. [Obs.] Bailey.

A copy; a transcript. [Obs.] Bailey.

A builder. [Obs.] Bailey.

To overflow; to inundate. [Obs.] Bailey.

The act or operation of burning up. Bailey.

A steward or bailiff of an estate. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

Easily tired. [Obs.] Bailey.