Vocabulary : Bailing to Bairam

Bailing : of Bail
Bailiwick : The precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction; the limits of a bailiff's authority.
Baillie : Bailiff. ;; Same as Bailie.
Bailment : The action of bailing a person accused. ;; A delivery of goods or money by one person to another in trust, for some special purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed.
Bailor : One who delivers goods or money to another in trust.

Bailpiece : A piece of parchment, or paper, containing a recognizance or bail bond.
Baily's beads : A row of bright spots observed in connection with total eclipses of the sun. Just before and after a total eclipse, the slender, unobscured crescent of the sun's disk appears momentarily like a row of bright spots resembling a string of beads. The phenomenon (first fully described by Francis Baily, 1774 -- 1844) is thought to be an effect of irradiation, and of inequalities of the moon's edge.
Bain : A bath; a bagnio.
Bain-marie : A vessel for holding hot water in which another vessel may be heated without scorching its contents; -- used for warming or preparing food or pharmaceutical preparations.
Bairam : The name of two Mohammedan festivals, of which one is held at the close of the fast called Ramadan, and the other seventy days after the fast. ;; Either of two Mohammedan festivals, of which one (the Lesser Bairam) is held at the close of the fast called Ramadan, and the other (the Greater Bairam) seventy days after the fast.

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