Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Bailie"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bailie \Bail"ie\, n. [See {Bailiff}.]
An officer in Scotland, whose office formerly corresponded to
that of sheriff, but now corresponds to that of an English
alderman.
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