_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.

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