 | John Henry Parker - Architecture - 1840 - 314 pages
...Plaster-work. See Pargetting. BAILEY, BAIL, [Lat. Ballium, Fr. Baille.] This was a name given to the courts of a castle formed by the spaces between the circuits...itself has disappeared ; as the old Bailey in London, the Bailey in Oxford. BALCONY [Fr. Balcon, Ital. Balcon, Ger. 5lltan, Salfone, ©3IIcr,], a projecting... | |
 | John Henry Parker - 1850 - 562 pages
...piece of timber, straight or curved, is termed the back, and the lower side the breast. to the courts of a castle formed by the spaces between the circuits...itself has disappeared ; as the Old Bailey in London, the Bailey in Oxford. " This ditch was sometimes called the ditch del bayle, or of the ballium ; a... | |
 | John Ogilvie - English language - 1855 - 434 pages
...BAILE,t n. Power. [Spenser.] BAI'LEY, я. [Lat. ballium; Fr. bailie.] The name given to the courts of a castle formed by the spaces between the circuits of walls or defences which surrounded the keep. The Old Bailey in London is so derived. BAILIE, n. See BAILLIE. BAI'LIFF, n. [add.] This name of office... | |
 | Mark Antony Lower - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1860 - 540 pages
...title of office applied in many ways under our feudal and municipal laws. 3. A name given to the courts of a castle formed by the spaces between the circuits of walls or defences which surround the keep. Gloss. Arch. BAILLIE. The Scottish form of Bailiff or Bailey. See Bailey. BAINBRIDGE.... | |
 | Philological Society (Great Britain) - Philology - 1865 - 568 pages
...AS bit, from biddan. See Forbat and Hat. Bayle, sb., 687, 805. 'Bailey, a name given to the courts of a castle, formed by the spaces between the circuits of walls or defences which surrounded the keep. Oxf. Gloss. Arch.' Halliwell's Arch. Dictionary. 'Bailie, pieu, palissade'. Menage. Be, beo (= by,... | |
 | John Ogilvie - 1882 - 724 pages
...ballium, л corruption of I. rullmn. a rampart, from L. rafiti -. a stake. ] The name given to the courts of a castle formed by the spaces between the circuits of walls or defences which surrounded the keep. The Old Bailey in London got its name thus. ВаШагу, Balllierte (Mli-a-ri. bii'll-er-l), n. In... | |
 | John Ogilvie - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1883 - 734 pages
...ballium, a corruption of L vallum, a rampart, from L. nattiu, astake. ] The name given to the courts of a castle formed by the spaces between the circuits of walls or defences which surrounded the keep. The Old bailey in London got iU numc thus. Bailiary, Ballllerle (bali-a-ri, baHi-er-i), n. In .SVfrfs... | |
 | Reference books - 1884 - 718 pages
...a kettle. One of tho hoops supporting the tilt of a boat. Bailey, 'i. The name given to the courts of a castle formed by the spaces between the circuits of walls which surround the keep. The Old Bailey in London got its name thus. Bailie, bii'li. A municipal officer... | |
 | John McClintock - Bible - 1885 - 1022 pages
...Crucis (1653). See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generate, SV Bailey (Lat. ballium), a name given to the courts or wards of a castle formed by the spaces between the...has disappeared; as the Old Bailey in London, St. Petcr's-iu-the-Bailcy hi Oxford. Bailey, Dudley P., a Baptist minister, was born in Yarmouth, Me.,... | |
 | John McClintock - Bible - 1885 - 1008 pages
...Crucii (1653). See Hoefer, None. Biog. Generate, sv Bailey (Lat. baUium), a name given to the courts or wards of a castle formed by the spaces between the...two or three of these courts between the outer wall anil the keep, divided from each other by embattled walls. The name is frequently retained long after... | |
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Bailey (Lat. ballium), a name given to the courts or wards of a castle formed by the spaces between the circuits of walls or defences which surrounded the keep : sometimes there were two or three of these courts between the outer wall and the keep, divided... 
