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_S. Prov._
BAIKIE, BACKET, _s._ A square wooden vessel, for carrying coals to the fire, S.
BAIL, BAILE, BAYLE, BALL, BELE, BELLE, _s._
1. A flame, or blaze of what kind soever.
_Barbour._
2. A bonfire.
_Sir Gawan._
3. A fire kindled as a signal.
_Douglas._
4. Metaph. the flame of love.
_Henrysone._
A. S. _bael_, Su. G. _baal_, a funeral pile, Isl. _baal_, a strong fire.
BAYLE-FYRE, _s._ A bonfire.
A. S. _bael-fyr_, the fire of a funeral pile.
BAILCH, _s._ A very l.u.s.ty person, S. B.
V. _Belch_.
_Ross._
BAILLE, _s._ A mistress.
_Wallace._
Fr. _belle_, id.
BAILLIE, BAILIE, _s._
1. A magistrate second in rank, in a royal borough, an alderman, S.
_Lyndsay._
2. The baron's deputy in a burgh of barony, S.
_Statist. Acc._
Fr. _Baillie_, an officer, L. B. _baliv-us_.
BAILLIERIE, _s._
1. The extent of a bailie's jurisdiction, S.
_Wodrow._
2. The extent of a sheriff's jurisdiction.
_Acts Ja. I._
BAYNE, BANE, _adj._
1. Ready, prepared, S. B.
_Wallace._
2. Alert, lively, active.
_Wallace._
Isl. _bein-a_, expedire.
BAYNLY, _adv._ Readily, cheerfully.
BAYNE, "_Forte_, a kind of fur," Rudd.
_Douglas._
BAIR, BAR, _s._ A boar.
_Barbour._
A. S. _bar_, Germ. _baer_, Lat. _verr-es_, id.
BAIRD, _s._ A poet or bard.
