Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages). Noah Webster

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СКАЧАТЬ Bail¶ment (?), n. 1. (Law) The action of bailing a person accused.

       Bailment … is the saving or delivery of a man out of prison before he hath satisfied the law.

       Dalton.

       2. (Law) A delivery of goods or money by one person to another in trust, for some special purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed.

       Blackstone.

       µ In a general sense it is sometimes used as comprehending all duties in respect to property.

       Story.

       Bail·or¶ (?), n. (Law) One who delivers goods or money to another in trust.

       Bail¶piece· (?), n. (Law) A piece of parchment, or paper, containing a recognizance or bail bond.

       Bain (?), n. [F. bain, fr. L. balneum. Cf. Bagnio.] A bath; a bagnio. [Obs.]

       Holland.

       ØBain·Ïma·rie¶ (?), n. [F.] A vessel for holding hot water in which another vessel may be heated without scorching its contents; Ð used for warming or preparing food or pharmaceutical preparations.

       ØBai¶ram (?), n. [Turk. ba‹r¾m.] The name of two Mohammedan festivals, of which one is held at the close of the fast called Ramadan, and the other seventy days after the fast.

       Bairn (?), n. [Scot. bairn, AS. bearn, fr. beran to bear; akin to Icel., OS., &Goth. barn. See Bear to support.] A child. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

       Has he not well provided for the bairn !

       Beau. & Fl.

       Baise¶mains· (?), n. pl. [F., fr. baiser to kiss + mains hands.] Respects; compliments. [Obs.]

       Bait (?), n. [Icel. beita food, beit pasture, akin to AS. b¾t food, Sw. bete. See Bait, v.i.] 1. Any substance, esp. food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, inclosure, or net.

       2. Anything which allures; a lure; enticement; temptation.

       Fairfax.

       3. A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a journey; also, a stop for rest and refreshment.

       4. A light or hasty luncheon.

       Bait bug (Zo”l), a crustacea? of the genus Hippa found burrowing in sandy beaches. See Anomura.

       Bait, v.t. [imp. & p.p. Baited; p. pr. & vb. n. Baiting.] [OE. baiten, beit?n, to feed, harass, fr. Icel. beita, orig. to cause to bite, fr. bÆta. ?87. See Bite.]

       1. To provoke and harass; esp., to harass or torment for sport; as, to bait a bear with dogs; to bait a bull.

       2. To give a portion of food and drink to, upon the road; as, to bait horses.

      Holland.

       3. To furnish or cover with bait, as a trap or hook.

       A crooked pin … bailed with a vile earthworm.

       W.Irving.

       Bait, v.i. To stop to take a portion of food and drink for refreshment of one's self or one's beasts, on a journey.

       Evil news rides post, while good news baits.

       Milton.

       My lord's coach conveyed me to Bury, and thence baiting a? Newmarket.

       Evelyn.

       Bait, v.i. [F. battre de l'aile (or des ailes), to flap o? flutter. See Batter, v.i.] To flap the wings; to flutter as if to fly; or to hover, as a hawk when she stoops to her prey. ½Kites that bait and beat.¸

       Shak.

       Bait¶er (?), n. One who baits; a tormentor.

       Baize (?), n. [For bayes, pl. fr. OF. baie; cf. F. bai bayÐcolored. See Bay a color.] A coarse woolen stuff with a long nap; Ð usually dyed in plain colors.

       A new black baize waistcoat lined with silk.

       Pepys.

       ØBaÏjoc¶co (?), n. [It., fr. bajo brown, bay, from its color.] A small cooper coin formerly current in the Roman States, worth about a cent and a half.

       Bake (?), v. t. [imp.& p.p. Baked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Baking.] [ AS. bacan; akin to D. bakken, OHG. bacchan, G. backen, Icel. & Sw. baca, Dan. bage, Gr. ? to roast.] 1. To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as, to bake bread, meat, apples.

       µ Baking is the term usually applied to that method of cooking which exhausts the moisture in food more than roasting or broiling; but the distinction of meaning between roasting and baking is not always observed.

       2. To dry or harden (anything) by subjecting to heat, as, to bake bricks; the sun bakes the ground.

       3. To harden by cold.

       The earth … is baked with frost.

       Shak.

       They bake their sides upon the cold, hard stone.

       Spenser.

       Bake, v.i. 1. To do the work of baking something; as, she brews, washes, and bakes.

       Shak.

       2. To be baked; to become dry and hard in heat; as, the bread bakes; the ground bakes in the hot sun.

       Bake, n. The process, or result, of baking.

       Bake¶house·ÿ(?), n. [AS. b‘ch?s. See Bak?, v.i., and House.] A house for baking; a bakery.

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      Bake¶meat· (?), Baked¶Ïmeat· (?), } n. A pie; baked food. [Obs.]

       Gen. xl.17. Shak.

       Bak¶en (?), p.p. of Bake. [Obs. or. Archaic]

       Bak¶er (?), n. [AS. b‘cere. See Bake, v.i.] 1. One whose business it is to bake bread, biscuit, etc.

       2. A portable oven in which baking is done. [U.S.]

       A baker's dozen, thirteen. Ð Baker foot, a distorted foot. [Obs.] Jer.Taylor. Ð Baker's itch, a rash on the back of the hand, caused by the irritating properties of yeast. Ð Baker's salt, the subcarbonate of ammonia, sometimes used instead of soda, in making bread.

       Bak¶erÐlegged· (?), a. Having legs that bend inward at the knees.

       Bak¶erÏy (?), n. 1. The trade of a baker. [R.]

       2. The place for baking bread; a bakehouse.

       Bak¶ing, n. 1. The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and hardening by heat or cold.

       2. The quantity baked at once; a batch; as, a baking of bread.

       Baking powder, a substitute for yeast, usually consisting of an acid, a carbonate, and a little СКАЧАТЬ