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Pail :: Pail (n.) A vessel of wood or tin, etc., usually cylindrical and having a bail, -- used esp. for carrying liquids, as water or milk, etc.; a bucket. It may, or may not, have a cover..

Errant :: Errant (a.) Journeying; itinerant; -- formerly applied to judges who went on circuit and to bailiffs at large.

Myrmidon :: Myrmidon (n.) A soldier or a subordinate civil officer who executes cruel orders of a superior without protest or pity; -- sometimes applied to bailiffs, constables, etc..

Exception :: Exception (n.) 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 excepts something before granted..

Bailor :: Bailor (n.) One who delivers goods or money to another in trust.

Bail :: Bail (n.) Custody; keeping.

Boroughmaster :: Boroughmaster (n.) The mayor, governor, or bailiff of a borough..

Justify :: Justify (v. i.) To take oath to the ownership of property sufficient to qualify one's self as bail or surety.

Wicket :: Wicket (n.) A small framework at which the ball is bowled. It consists of three rods, or stumps, set vertically in the ground, with one or two short rods, called bails, lying horizontally across the top..

Factor :: Factor (n.) A steward or bailiff of an estate.

Bail :: Bail (n.) A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat.

Bumbailiff :: Bumbailiff (n.) See Bound bailiff, under Bound, a..

Hundreder :: Hundreder (n.) One who has the jurisdiction of a hundred; and sometimes, a bailiff of a hundred..

Stump :: Stump (n.) One of the three pointed rods stuck in the ground to form a wicket and support the bails.

Bailed :: Bailed (imp. & p. p.) of Bai.

Bailable :: Bailable (a.) Admitting of bail; as, a bailable offense..

Depositary :: Depositary (n.) One to whom goods are bailed, to be kept for the bailor without a recompense..

Caution :: Caution (n.) Security; guaranty; bail.

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

Hire :: Hire (n.) A bailment by which the use of a thing, or the services and labor of a person, are contracted for at a certain price or reward..

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