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ia still exceedingly defective. The 

 range of the Irish or soft pipe docs not 

 exceed twelve tolerable notes, and that 

 of the Scottish or Highland pipe nine ; 

 and it can hardly be said that the music 

 of either is a " pleasant noise," unless 

 when filtered through a stone-wall of 

 two feet thick. 



BAOUET'TE, an architectural term, from 

 the French, denoting a small round mould- 

 ing, somewhat less than an astragal, 

 which, when enriched with ornaments, is 

 called a chaplet, and when plain, it is a bead. 

 BAH'AR BARHE, a weight used in various 

 parts of the East Indies. That of Acheen 

 = 490 Ibs., that of Uencoolen =.560 Ibs., 

 that of Junkseylon = 485 Ibs. 5 oz., that 

 of Malacca = 405 Ibs., and that of Mocha 

 = 445 Ibs. avoirdupois. 



BAIL, from Fr. bailltr, to deliver. In 

 laic, to bail is to liberate from arrest and 

 imprisonment. Thus the magistrate bails 

 a man when he sets him at liberty upon 

 bond given with securities ; and the surety 

 fails a man when he procures his release 

 by giving bond for his appearance. When 

 a person has procured his liberty on bond 

 given for his appearance when cited, he 

 is said to be out on bail ; the persons who 

 are surety for him are his oaO, and the 

 bond of surety is the bail-bond. "When the 

 securities are mere fictitious names, a 

 John Doe and Richard Roe, the bail is 

 called common ; when the bail-bond is 

 bc-nd fide a bond of surety, the bail is 



called special. The word bail is nse<l by 



seamen to signify the process of clearing 

 a boat of water; but in this sense it is 

 usually written, thouirh improperly, bale. 

 BA'ILEE, the person to whom a bail- 

 ment (q. v.) is made. Bailer, the person 

 making the bailment 



BAI'LIE. in Scotland, a magistrate of a 

 royal burgh, possessed of certain jurisdic- 

 tion by common law as well as by statute : 

 the title is analogous to alderman in Eng- 

 land 



BAILITT, Fr. bailif, of Lat. baila, autho- 

 rity. This name was anciently used to 

 signify an officer appointed for the ad- 

 ministration of justice within a certain 

 district, and comprehended sheriffs of 

 counties (called bailiwicks or ballivee), as 

 well as bailiffs of hundreds. There are 

 now many sorts of bailiffs: 1. Sheriff' s- 

 bailiffs, who are either special, and ap- 

 pointed for their adroitness to apprehend 

 defaulters; or bailiffs of hundreds, who 

 collect fines, summon juries, attend the 

 assizes, and execute writs and processes. 

 The special- bailiffs are more commonly in 

 Scotland called sheriff-officers, and the 

 bailiffs of hundreds have in England got 

 the homely appellation of bum-baitiffs (an 

 odd corruption of bound-bailiff. Set AP- 



PBX-LAT:OM). 2. Bailiffs cf liberties, are 



appovatea bv Cbe .lords of tiieir ier.?ctiv-3 



urisdictions, to exectite processes and 



perform other duties. 3. lioihffs <>) 



courts baron, summon these courts and 

 execute the process thereof. 1. Water- 

 bailiffs, are appointed in seaport towns to 

 search vessels, gather toll for anchorage, 



arrest debtors on the water, &c. 5. In 



some provincial towns of England the 

 principal magistrates are called bailiffs; 

 there is a hiph-bailiff of Westminster; the 

 lord mayor of London sits under his title 

 of bailiff (which title he bore before the 

 present became usual), in the court of Old 

 Bailey ; the sheriff is the Queen's bailiff, 

 and there are bailiffs of castles, as that of 

 Dover, and bailiffs on estates, who have 

 charge of the inferior servants and direct 

 their work. 



BAI'I.IWICK (baili, and Sax. plC, juris- 

 diction). The jurisdiction of a bailiff (q.^.). 

 Under William I . , the counties of Englan i 

 were called bailiwicks (Lat. ballivee), and 

 the subdivisions hundreds. The courts of 

 the latter have long since ceased. 



BAIL'MENT, from bail. A delivery 0* 

 goods, in trust, upon a contract expressoa 

 or implied that the trust shall be faith- 

 fully executed. It comprehends : (1.) De- 

 posit. (2.) Loan. (3.) Hire. (4.) Pledge. 

 (5.) Carriage of goods for reward. (6.) 

 Mandate. 



BAIL'FIECE, a slip of parchment or paper, 

 containing a recognisance of bail above or 

 bail to the action. 



BAIR'AM, an annual festival among the 

 Mohammedans. It may be called the 

 faster, as the rhamadftn is the Lent of 

 the followers of Mahomet. See RHAM- 



ADAN. 



BAIRMAN. lair and man. An old law 

 term, denoting a debtor sworn in court 

 not to be in possession of property worth 

 five shillings and fivepence. Synonymous 

 with dyi-our. 



BAJ'ADERES, the Portuguese name of 

 the Indian dancing girls, employed partly 

 as priestesses, and partly as means of 

 entertainment and pleasure to the gran- 

 dees of India. 



BAj'trnjs, Lat. bajvlare, to carry. In the 

 lower Greek empire, the officer intrusted 

 with the education of a prince 



BA'KER'S-ITCH, a species of psoriasis is 

 so called when it is confined to the back 

 of the hand, where it often appears among 

 bakers. 



BALJE'NA, from flaXouvft, a whale (of 

 /3oAAa>, to throw, in allusion to its power 

 of spouting the water, technically called 

 blowing}. A genus of mammalia belong- 

 ing to the order cetacea of Cuvier ; and to 

 that tribe popularly called the blowert. 

 See CETACEA and WHALE. 



BALALA'IKA, a musical instrument ol 

 the guitar kind, of very ancient Sclavonian 

 , and common among the Russian* 





