Bail

1. n. A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat.
2. v. t. To lade; to dip and throw; — usually with out; as, to bail water out of a boat.
3. v. t. To dip or lade water from; — often with out to express completeness; as, to bail a boat.
4. v./t. To deliver; to release.
5. v./t. 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.
6. v./t. 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.
7. n. Custody; keeping.
8. n. 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.
9. n. 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.
10. n. The arched handle of a kettle, pail, or similar vessel, usually movable.
11. 1n. 1 A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat.
12. 1v. t. 1 To lade; to dip and throw; — usually with out; as, to bail water out of a boat.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Baffle

1. n. A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture.
2. v. t. To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.
3. v. t. To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.
4. v. t. To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart.
5. v. i. To practice deceit.
6. v. i. To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds.

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Bafflement

1. n. The process or act of baffling, or of being baffled; frustration; check.

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Baffler

1. n. One who, or that which, baffles.

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Baft

1. n. Same as Bafta.

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Bafta

1. n. A coarse stuff, usually of cotton, originally made in India. Also, an imitation of this fabric made for export.

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Bag

1. n. A certain quantity of a commodity, such as it is customary to carry to market in a sack; as, a bag of pepper or hops; a bag of coffee.
2. n. A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; as, a bag of meal or of money.
3. n. A sac, or dependent gland, in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance; as, the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents; the bag of a cow.
4. n. A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men’s hair behind, by way of ornament.
5. n. The quantity of game bagged.
6. v. i. To swell with arrogance.

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Bagged

1. imp. & p. p. of Bag

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Bagging

1. p. pr. & vb. n. of Bag
2. n. Cloth or other material for bags.
3. n. The act of putting anything into, or as into, a bag.
4. n. The act of swelling; swelling.

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Bagasse

1. n. Sugar cane, as it comes crushed from the mill. It is then dried and used as fuel. Also extended to the refuse of beetroot sugar.

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