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Handle :: Handle (n.) That part of vessels, instruments, etc., which is held in the hand when used or moved, as the haft of a sword, the knob of a door, the bail of a kettle, etc..

Bailable :: Bailable (a.) That can be delivered in trust; as, bailable goods..

Bail :: Bail (n.) The top or cross piece ( or either of the two cross pieces) of the wicket.

Vadium :: Vadium (n.) Pledge; security; bail. See Mortgage.

Bail :: Bail (n.) A division for the stalls of an open stable.

Bail :: Bail (v./t.) To deliver; to release.

Bail :: Bail (v./t.) To deliver, as goods in trust, for some special object or purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed on the part of the bailee, or person intrusted; as, to bail cloth to a tailor to be made into a garment; to bail goods to a carrier..

Assize :: Assize (n.) An assembly of knights and other substantial men, with a bailiff or justice, in a certain place and at a certain time, for public business..

Stump :: Stump (n.) To put (a batsman) out of play by knocking off the bail, or knocking down the stumps of the wicket he is defending while he is off his allotted ground; -- sometimes with out..

Bail :: Bail (n.) A certain limit within a forest.

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

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

Surrender :: Surrender (n.) The giving up of a principal into lawful custody by his bail.

Bailiff :: Bailiff (n.) A sheriff's deputy, appointed to make arrests, collect fines, summon juries, etc..

Bail :: Bail (n.) The outer wall of a feudal castle. Hence: The space inclosed by it; the outer court.

Bailiff :: Bailiff (n.) An overseer or under steward of an estate, who directs husbandry operations, collects rents, etc..

Surrender :: Surrender (v. t.) To yield; to render or deliver up; to give up; as, a principal surrendered by his bail, a fugitive from justice by a foreign state, or a particular estate by the tenant thereof to him in remainder or reversion..

Bail :: Bail (n.) A line of palisades serving as an exterior defense.

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

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

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