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A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat. [Obs.] The bail of a canoe . . . made of a human skull. Capt. Cook.

Special bail in court to abide the judgment. Bouvier.

Having the right or privilege of being admitted to bail, upon bond with sureties; -- used of persons. "He's bailable, I'm sure." Ford.

The person to whom goods are committed in trust, and who has a temporary possession and a qualified property in them, for the purposes of the trust. Blackstone.

See Bailor.

A prison or court of justice; -- used in certain proper names; as, the Old Bailey in London; the New Bailey in Manchester. [Eng.] Oxf. Gloss.

An officer in Scotland, whose office formerly corresponded to that of sheriff, but now corresponds to that of an English alderman.

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.

See Bailiwick. [Obs.]

The precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction; the limits of a bailiff's authority.

Bailiff. [Obs.]

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

One who delivers goods or money to another in trust.

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

ight 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.

See Bound bailiff, under Bound, a.

An officer of the customs, whose duty it is to search vessels. [Eng.]

Banishment. [Obs.] Bailey.

Causing, or implying, abdication. [R.] Bailey.

Having the quality of hiding. [R.] Bailey.