2. Delivered in trust, to be carried and deposited, redelivered, or otherwise accounted for. NWAD BAILED.2
3. Freed from water, as a boat. NWAD BAILED.3
There are also bailiffs of liberties, appointed by the lords in their respective jurisdictions, to execute process, and perform other duties; bailiffs of forests and manors, who direct the husbandry, collect rents, etc.; and water bailiffs in each port, to search vessels, gather toll for anchorage, arrest persons for debt on the water, etc. NWAD BAILIF.2
The office of bailiff formerly was high and honorable in England, and officers under that title on the continent are still invested with important functions. NWAD BAILIF.3
The precincts in which a bailiff has jurisdiction; the limits of a bailiff’s authority; as a hundred, a liberty, a forest, over which a bailiff is appointed. In the liberties and franchises of lords, the bailiff has exclusive jurisdiction. NWAD BAILIWICK.2
A delivery of goods, in trust, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed. NWAD BAILMENT.2
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 inclosure or net. NWAD BAIT.2
2. A portion of food and drink, or a refreshment taken on a journey. NWAD BAIT.3
3. An allurement; enticement; temptation. NWAD BAIT.4
2. To give a portion of food and drink to man or beast upon the road; as, to bait horses. NWAD BAIT.6
1. To provoke and harass by dogs; to harass by the help of others; as, to bait a bull or a boar. NWAD BAIT.9
2. To attack with violence; to harass in the manner of small animals. NWAD BAIT.10
2. Fed, or refreshed, on the road. NWAD BAITED.2
3. Harassed by dogs or other small animals; attacked. NWAD BAITED.3
2. Feeding; refreshing at an inn. NWAD BAITING.2
3. Harassing, with dogs; attacking. NWAD BAITING.3
1. 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. NWAD BAKE.2
2. To dry and harden by heat, either in an oven, kiln or furnace, or by the solar rays; as, to bake bricks; to bake the ground. NWAD BAKE.3
2. To be baked; to dry and harden in heat; as, the bread bakes, the ground bakes in a hot sun. NWAD BAKE.5
2. A place occupied with the business of baking bread, etc. NWAD BAKERY.2
1. A pair of scales, for weighing commodities. It consists of a beam or lever suspended exactly in the middle, with a scale or basin hung to each extremity, of precisely equal weight. NWAD BALANCE.2
The Roman balance, our steel-yard, consists of a lever or beam, movable on a center, and suspended near one of its extremities. Hence, NWAD BALANCE.3
2. One of the simple powers in mechanics, used for determining the equality or difference of weight in heavy bodies, and consequently their masses or quantity of matter. NWAD BALANCE.4
3. Figuratively, an impartial state of the mind, in deliberating; or a just estimate of the reasons and arguments on both sides of a question, which gives to each its due weight, or force and importance. NWAD BALANCE.5
4. As balance signifies equal weight, or equality, it is by custom used for the weight or sum necessary to make two unequal weights or sums equal; that which is necessary to bring them to a balance or equipoise. Hence, in accounts, balance is the difference of two sums; as upon an adjustment of accounts, a balance was found against A, in favor of B. Hence, to pay a balance, is to pay the difference and make the two accounts equal. NWAD BALANCE.6
5. Balance of trade is an equal exportation of domestic productions, and importation of foreign. But, usually, the term is applied to the difference between the amount or value of the commodities exported and imported. Hence the common expression, the balance of trade is against or in favor of a country. NWAD BALANCE.7
6. Equipoise, or an equal state of power between nations; as the “balance of power.” NWAD BALANCE.8
7. Equipoise, or an equal state of the passions. NWAD BALANCE.9
The balance of the mind. NWAD BALANCE.10
8. That which renders weight or authority equal. NWAD BALANCE.11
The only balance attempted against the ancient kings, was a body of nobles. NWAD BALANCE.12
9. The part of a clock or watch which regulates the beats. NWAD BALANCE.13
10. In astronomy, a sign in the zodiac, called in Latin Libra, which the sun enters at the equinox in September. NWAD BALANCE.14
The hydrostatic balance is an instrument to determine the specific gravity of fluid and solid bodies. NWAD BALANCE.15
The assay balance is one which is used in docimastic operations, to determine the weight of minute bodies. NWAD BALANCE.16
2. To weigh reasons; to compare, by estimating the relative force, importance, or value of different things; as, to balance good and evil. NWAD BALANCE.18
3. To regulate different powers, so as to keep them in a state of just proportion; as, to balance Europe, or the powers of Europe. NWAD BALANCE.19
4. To counterpoise; to make of equal weight or force; to make equipollent; as, one species of attraction balances another. NWAD BALANCE.20
One expression in the letter check and balance another. NWAD BALANCE.21
5. To settle and adjust, as an account; to find the difference of two accounts, and to pay the balance, or difference, and make them equal. NWAD BALANCE.22
6. In seamanship, to contract a sail, by rolling up a small part of it at one corner. NWAD BALANCE.23
2. To hesitate; to fluctuate between motives which appear of equal force, as a balance plays when poised by equal weights. NWAD BALANCE.25
Between right and wrong, never balance a moment. NWAD BALANCE.26
2. A member of an insect useful in balancing the body. NWAD BALANCER.2
3. One skilled in balancing. NWAD BALANCER.3
1. Destitute of hair, especially on the top and back of the head. NWAD BALD.2
2. Destitute of the natural covering; as a bald oak. NWAD BALD.3
3. Without feathers on the head; as a bald vulture. NWAD BALD.4
4. Destitute of trees on the top; as a bald mountain. NWAD BALD.5
5. Unadorned; inelegant; as a bald translation. NWAD BALD.6
6. Mean; naked; base; without dignity or value. NWAD BALD.7
7. In popular language, open, bold, audacious. NWAD BALD.8
8. Without beard or awn; as bald wheat. NWAD BALD.9
1. A girdle, or richly ornamented belt; a war girdle. NWAD BALDRICK.2
A radiant baldrick o’er his shoulders tied. NWAD BALDRICK.3
2. The zodiac. NWAD BALDRICK.4
1. A bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for carriage or transportation. NWAD BALE.2
2. Formerly, a pair of dice NWAD BALE.3
Misery; calamity. NWAD BALE.6
Pertaining to the isles of Majorca and Minorca, in the Mediterranean sea. NWAD BALEARIC.2
2. Mischievous; destructive; pernicious; calamitous; deadly; as, baleful enemies; baleful war. NWAD BALEFUL.2
1. A ridge of land, left unplowed, between furrows, or at the end of a field. NWAD BALK.2
2. A great beam, or rafter. NWAD BALK.3
3. Any thing left untouched, like a ridge in plowing. NWAD BALK.4
4. A frustration; disappointment. NWAD BALK.5
1. To disappoint; to frustrate. NWAD BALK.7
2. To leave untouched; to miss or omit. NWAD BALK.8
3. To pile, as in a heap or ridge. NWAD BALK.9
4. To turn aside; to talk beside one’s meaning. NWAD BALK.10
5. To plow, leaving balks. NWAD BALK.11
2. Frustrated; disappointed. NWAD BALKED.2
1. A round body; a spherical substance, whether natural or artificial; or a body nearly round; as, a ball for play; a ball of thread; a ball of snow. NWAD BALL.2
2. A bullet; a ball of iron or lead for cannon, muskets, etc. NWAD BALL.3
3. A printer’s ball, consisting of hair or wool, covered with leather or skin, and fastened to a stock, called a ball-stock, and used to put ink on the types in the forms. NWAD BALL.4
4. The globe or earth, from its figure. NWAD BALL.5
5. A globe borne as an ensign of authority; as, to hold the ball of a kingdom. NWAD BALL.6
6. Any part of the body that is round or protuberant; as, the eye ball; the ball of the thumb or foot. NWAD BALL.7
7. The weight at the bottom of a pendulum. NWAD BALL.8
8. Among the Cornish miners in England, a tin mine. NWAD BALL.9
9. In pyrotechnics, a composition of combustible ingredients, which serve to burn, smoke or give light. NWAD BALL.10
Ball-stock, among printers, a stock somewhat hollow at one end, to which balls of skin, stuffed with wool, are fastened, and which serves as a handle. NWAD BALL.11
Ball-vein, among miners, a sort of iron ore, found in loose masses, of a circular form, containing sparkling particles. NWAD BALL.12
Ball and socket, an instrument used in surveying and astronomy, made of brass, with a perpetual screw, to move horizontally, obliquely, or vertically. NWAD BALL.13
Puff-ball, in botany, the Lycoperdon, a genus of fungeses. NWAD BALL.14
Fire-ball, a meteor; a luminous globe darting through the atmosphere; also, a bag of canvas filled with gunpowder, sulphur, pitch, saltpeter, etc., to be thrown by the hand, or from mortars, to set fire to houses. NWAD BALL.15
1. Heavy matter, as stone, sand or iron, laid on the bottom of a ship or other vessel, to sink it in the water, to such a depth, as to enable it to carry sufficient sail, without oversetting. NWAD BALLAST.2
Shingle ballast is ballast of coarse gravel. NWAD BALLAST.3
2. Figuratively, that which is used to make a thing steady. NWAD BALLAST.4
2. To keep any thing steady, by counterbalancing its force. NWAD BALLAST.6
1. A kind of dance; an interlude; a comic dance, consisting of a series of several airs, with different movements, representing some subject or action. NWAD BALLET.2
2. A kind of dramatic poem, representing some fabulous action or subject, in which several persons appear and recite things, under the name of some deity or personage. NWAD BALLET.3
In heraldry, ballets or balls, a bearing in coats of arms, denominated according to their color, bezants, plates, hurts, etc. NWAD BALLET.4
A small duty paid to the city of London by aliens, and even by denizens, for certain commodities exported by them. NWAD BALLIAGE.2
1. In general, any spherical hollow body. NWAD BALLOON.2
2. In chimistry, a round vessel with a short neck, to receive whatever is distilled; a glass receiver of a spherical form. NWAD BALLOON.3
3. In architecture, a ball or globe, on the top of a pillar. NWAD BALLOON.4
4. In fireworks, a ball of pasteboard, or kind of bomb, stuffed with combustibles, to be played off, when fired, either in the air, or in water, which, bursting like a bomb, exhibits sparks of fire like stars. NWAD BALLOON.5
5. A game, somewhat resembling tennis, played in an open field, with a large ball of leather, inflated with wind. NWAD BALLOON.6
6. A bag or hollow vessel, made of silk or other light material, and filled with hydrogen gas or heated air, so as to rise and float in the atmosphere, called for distinction, an air-balloon. NWAD BALLOON.7
7. In France, a quantity of paper, containing 24 reams. [See Bale.] NWAD BALLOON.8
8. In France, balloon, ballon or ballot, a quantity of glass plates; of white glass, 25 bundles of six plates each; of colored glass, 12 1-2 bundles of three plates each. NWAD BALLOON.9
1. A ball used in voting. Ballots are of different colors; those of one color give an affirmative; those of another, a negative. They are privately put into a box or urn. NWAD BALLOT.2
2. A ticket or written vote, being given in lieu of a ballot, is now called by the same name. NWAD BALLOT.3
3. The act of voting by balls or tickets. NWAD BALLOT.4
2. To vote by written papers or tickets. NWAD BALLOT.6
1. The sap or juice of trees or shrubs remarkable odoriferous or aromatic. NWAD BALM.2
2. Any fragrant or valuable ointment. NWAD BALM.3
3. Anything which heals, or which soothes or mitigates pain. NWAD BALM.4
4. In botany, the name of several plants, particularly of the genus Melissa. They are aromatic and used as corroborants. NWAD BALM.5
Balm of Gilead. A plant of the genus Amyris. Its leaves yield, when bruised, a strong aromatic scent; and from this plant is obtained the balm of Gilead of the shops, or balsam of Mecca or of Syria. It has a yellowish or greenish color, a warm bitterish aromatic taste, and an acidulous fragrant smell. It is valued as an odoriferous unguent, and cosmetic, by the Turks, who possess the country of its growth, and hence it is adulterated for market. NWAD BALM.6
2. To soothe; to mitigate; to assuage. NWAD BALM.8
2. Producing balm; as the balmy tree. NWAD BALMY.2
3. Soothing; soft; mild; as balmy slumbers. NWAD BALMY.3
4. Fragrant; odoriferous; as balmy wings. NWAD BALMY.4
5. Mitigating; easing; assuaging; as balmy breath. NWAD BALMY.5
A bathing room. NWAD BALNEARY.2
Balsam apple, an annual Indian plant; included under the genus Momordica. A water and a subtil oil are obtained from it, which are commended as deobstruents. NWAD BALSAM.2
Balsam tree. This name is given to a genus of plants called Clusia; to another, called Copaifera, which produces the balsam of Copaiba; and to a third, called Pistacia, turpentine tree or mastich tree. NWAD BALSAM.3
Balsam of Sulphur is a solution of sulphur in oil. NWAD BALSAM.4
Balsam of Tolu is the produce of the Toluifera, or Tolu tree, of South America. It is of a reddish yellow color, transparent, thick and tenacious, but growing hard and brittle by age. It is very fragrant, and like the Balsam of Peru, is a stimulant, and used as a pectoral. NWAD BALSAM.5
Balsam of Peru, the produce of a tree in Peru, possessing strong stimulant qualities. NWAD BALSAM.6
The sea which separates Norway and Sweden from Jutland, Holstein and Germany. NWAD BALTIC.2
Each Baltic state to join the righteous cause. NWAD BALTIC.4
A small column or pilaster, of various forms and dimension, often adorned with moldings, used for balustrades. NWAD BALUSTER.2
1. A public proclamation or edict; a public order or notice, mandatory or prohibitory. NWAD BAN.2
In a more particular sense, NWAD BAN.3
2. Notice of a marriage proposed, or of a matrimonial contract, proclaimed in a church, that any person may object, if he knows of any kindred between the parties, of any precontract or other just cause, why the marriage should not take place. NWAD BAN.4
3. An edict of interdiction or proscription. Hence to put a prince under the ban of the empire, is to divest him of his dignities, and to interdict all intercourse and all offices of humanity with the offender. Sometimes whole cities have been put under the ban, that is, deprived of their rights and privileges. NWAD BAN.5
4. Interdiction; prohibition. NWAD BAN.6
5. Curse; excommunication; anathema. NWAD BAN.7
6. A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban. NWAD BAN.8
7. A mulct paid to the bishop by one guilty of sacrilege and other crimes. NWAD BAN.9
8. In military affairs, a proclamation by beat of drum, requiring a strict observance of discipline, either for declaring a new officer, or for punishing an offender. NWAD BAN.10
9. In commerce, a smooth fine muslin, imported from the E. Indies. NWAD BAN.11
The fruit is four or five inches long, and an inch or more in diameter; the pulp soft and of a luscious taste. When ripe, it is eaten raw, or fried in slices. Bananas grow in large bunches weighing a dozen pounds or more. This tree is the native of tropical countries, and on many isles, constitutes an important article of food. NWAD BANANA.2