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Bail   /beɪl/   Listen
noun
Bail  n.  A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat. (Obs.) "The bail of a canoe... made of a human skull."


Bail  n.  
1.
Custody; keeping. (Obs.) "Silly Faunus now within their bail."
2.
(Law)
(a)
The person or persons who procure the release of a prisoner from the custody of the officer, or from imprisonment, by becoming surety for his appearance in court. "The bail must be real, substantial bondsmen." "A. and B. were bail to the arrest in a suit at law."
(b)
The security given for the appearance of a prisoner in order to obtain his release from custody of the officer; as, the man is out on bail; to go bail for any one. "Excessive bail ought not to be required."


Bail  n.  
1.
The arched handle of a kettle, pail, or similar vessel, usually movable.
2.
A half hoop for supporting the cover of a carrier's wagon, awning of a boat, etc.


Bail  n.  
1.
(Usually pl.) A line of palisades serving as an exterior defense. (Written also bayle) (Obs.)
2.
The outer wall of a feudal castle. Hence: The space inclosed by it; the outer court.
3.
A certain limit within a forest. (Eng.)
4.
A division for the stalls of an open stable.
5.
(Cricket) The top or cross piece (or either of the two cross pieces) of the wicket.


verb
Bail  v. t.  (past & past part. bailed; pres. part. bailing)  
1.
To lade; to dip and throw; usually with out; as, to bail water out of a boat. "Buckets... to bail out the water."
2.
To dip or lade water from; often with out to express completeness; as, to bail a boat. "By the help of a small bucket and our hats we bailed her out."


Bail  v. t.  
1.
To deliver; to release. (Obs.) "Ne none there was to rescue her, ne none to bail."
2.
(Law)
(a)
To set free, or deliver from arrest, or out of custody, on the undertaking of some other person or persons that he or they will be responsible for the appearance, at a certain day and place, of the person bailed. Note: The word is applied to the magistrate or the surety. The magistrate bails (but admits to bail is commoner) a man when he liberates him from arrest or imprisonment upon bond given with sureties. The surety bails a person when he procures his release from arrest by giving bond for his appearance.
(b)
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.





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... World," which he had written for the occasion, and which was founded on, and named after, the first part of the work of Master Ellis Wyn, he was arrested at the suit of one Mostyn of Calcoed. He, however, got bail, and partly by carrying and partly by playing interludes, soon raised money enough to pay his debt. He then made another interlude, called "Riches and Poverty," by which he gained a great deal of money. He then wrote two others, one called "The Three Associates of Man, namely, the ...
— Wild Wales - Its People, Language and Scenery • George Borrow
... violation of the law, and if he found the school to be going on as before, to arrest and rearrest, as long as the school should be continued. In consequence the school was forced to close its sessions, as the teachers were informed that they would be arrested over and over again, and that new bail would be required for every successive day; this not only for the teachers but for the patrons, which would be impossible in the case of those who are colored. This is in accordance with the published pronouncement of Supt. Sheats that he will prosecute and persecute this Orange Park ...
— The American Missionary - Volume 50, No. 6, June 1896 • Various
... I shall answer your plea. I shall ask him for his passport and delay the case, and order him to be severely treated; but in the end I shall only be able to drive him out of the town, unless he can find good bail." ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
... Furnival had answered. "You of course will explain to her how the case at present stands. I fear she must reconcile herself to the fact of a trial. You are aware, Sir Peregrine, that the offence imputed is one for which bail will be taken. I should propose yourself and her son. Of course I should be happy to lend my own name, but as I shall be on the trial, perhaps it may be as well that this should ...
— Orley Farm • Anthony Trollope
... was brought before the commissioner, he waived examination, and was committed to await the session of the district court. Mr. Plausaby came up and offered to become his bail, but this Charlton vehemently refused, and was locked up in jail, where for the next two or three months he amused himself by reading the daily papers and such books as he could borrow, and writing on various subjects manuscripts which ...
— The Mystery of Metropolisville • Edward Eggleston


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