Webster's Dictionary 1828

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BAILIWICK

BA'ILIWICK, noun [bailli, an officer, see bailiff.]The precincts in which a bailiff has jurisdiction; the limits of a bailiff's authority; as a hundred, a liberty, a forest, ove...

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BAILMENT

BA'ILMENT, noun [from bail.]A delivery of goods, in trust, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed.

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BAILOR

BA'ILOR, noun One who delivers goods to another in trust, for some particular purpose.

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BAILPIECE

BA'ILPIECE, noun A slip of parchment or paper containing a recognizance of bail above or bail to the action.

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BAIRN

BAIRNBAIT, noun1. Any substance for food, proper to be used or actually used, to catch fish, or other animals, by alluring them to swallow a hook, or to be caught in snares, or ...

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BAIT

BAIT, n.1. Any substance for food, proper to be used or actually used, to catch fish, or other animals, by alluring them to swallow a hook, or to be caught in snares, or in an i...

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BAITED

BA'ITED, participle passive Furnished with bait; allured; tempted.2. Fed, or refreshed, on the road.3. Harassed by dogs or other small animals; attacked.

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BAITING

BA'ITING, participle present tense Furnishing with bait; tempting; alluring.2. Feeding; refreshing at an inn.3. Harassing, with dogs; attacking.

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BAIZE

BAIZE, noun A coarse woolen stuff, with a long nap, sometimes frized on one side, without wale, being wove with two treadles like flannel.

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BAKE

BAKE, verb transitive1. To heat, dry and harden, as in an oven or furnace, or under coals of fire; to dress and prepare for food, in a close place heated; as, to bake bread.2. T...

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BAKED

BA'KED, participle passive Dried and hardened by heat; dressed in heat; as baked meat.

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BAKEHOUSE

BA'KEHOUSE, noun [bake and house.] A house or building for baking.

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BAKEMEATS

BA'KEMEATS, noun Meats prepared for food in an oven. Gen.xl.

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BAKEN

BA'KEN, participle passive The same as baked, and nearly obsolete.

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BAKER

BA'KER, noun One whose occupation is to bake bread, biscuit, etc.

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BAKER-FOOT

BA'KER-FOOT, noun An ill-shaped or distorted foot.

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BAKER-LEGGED

BA'KER-LEGGED, adjective One who has crooked legs, or legs that bend inward at the knees.

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BAKERY

BA'KERY, noun The trade of a baker.2. A place occupied with the business of baking bread, etc.

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BAKING

BA'KING, participle present tense Drying and hardening in heat; dressing or cooking in a close place, or in heat.BA'KING, noun The quantity baked at once; as a baking of bread.

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BALAN

BAL'AN, noun A fish of a beautiful yellow, variegated with orange, a species of wrasse, caught on the shores of England.

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BALANCE

BAL'ANCE, noun [Latin bilanx, bis, twice, and lanz, a dish, the double dish.]1. A pair of scales, for weighing commodities. It consists of a beam or lever suspended exactly in t...

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BALANCE-REEF

BAL'ANCE-REEF, noun A reef band that crosses a sail diagonally, used to contract it in a storm.

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BALANCED

BAL'ANCED, participle passive Charged with equal weights; standing on an equipoise, regulated so as to be equal; settled; adjusted; made equal in weight or amount.BAL'ANCE FISH,...

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BALANCER

BAL'ANCER, noun The person who weighs, or who uses a balance.2. A member of an insect useful in balancing the body.3. One skilled in balancing.

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BALANCING

BAL'ANCING, participle present tense Charging with equal weights; being in a state of equipoise; bringing to a state of equality; regulating respective forces or sums to make th...

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BALANITE

BAL'ANITE, noun A fossil shell of the genus Balanus.

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BALAS

BAL'AS, noun A variety of spinel ruby, of a pale rose red, or inclining to orange. Its crystals are usually octahedrons, composed of two four-sided pyramids, applied base to bas...