Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Bail"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

2. A half hoop for supporting the cover of a carrier's wagon,
awning of a boat, etc.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

The bail of a canoe . . . made of a human skull.
--Capt. Cook.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Buckets . . . to bail out the water. --Capt. J.
Smith.

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. --R. H. Dana,
Jr.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

2. The outer wall of a feudal castle. Hence: The space
inclosed by it; the outer court. --Holinshed.

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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Silly Faunus now within their bail. --Spenser.

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 surely for his appearance in
court.

The bail must be real, substantial bondsmen.
--Blackstone.

A. and B. were bail to the arrest in a suit at
law. --Kent.
(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.
--Blackstone.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Ne none there was to rescue her, ne none to bail.
--Spenser.

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. --Blackstone.
(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. --Blackstone. Kent.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

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