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 to stand trial under a penalty, he is said to be ''admitted to bail. See Scots Law, tit. Crimes.

bairam is put off to the next day, when it is kept, e

ven if the moon ffiould ftill be obfeured; when they Clerk of the Bails, is an officer belonging to the celebrate this feaft, after numerous ceremonies, or racourt of the King’s Bench : he files the bail-pieces ther ftrange mimickries, in their mofque, it is conclutaken in that court, and attends for that purpofe. ded with a folemn prayer againft the infidels, to exBAIL, or Bale, in the fea-language. The feamen tirpate Chriftian princes, or to arm them againft one call throwing the water by hand, out of the ffiip or another, that they may have an opportunity to extend boat’s-hold, bailing. They alfo call thofe hoops that the borders of their law. bear up the tilt of a boat, its bails. BAIT, in fiffiing. See Fishing. BAILIAGE, or Bailiwick. See Bailiwick. BAITING, in falconry, is when a hawk flutters with her Water Bailiage, an ancient duty paid to the city of wings, either from perch or fift, as if it were driving London, for all goods brought into, or carried out to get away. of, the port. BAJULUS, an ancient officer in the court of the Grc k BAILIE, in Scots law, a judge anciently appointed by emperors There were feveral degrees ot bajuli, as the king over fuch lands not eredted into a regality as the grand bajulus, who was preceptor to the emperor; happened to fall to the crown by forfeiture or other- and the Ample bajuli, who were fub-preceptors. wife, now aboliffied. It is alfo the name of a magi- BAKAL, a great lake in the middle of Siberia, on the ftrate in royal boroughs, and of the judge appointed road from Mufcovy to China. by a baron over lands eredted into a barony. See BAKER, a perfon whofe occupation or bufinefs it is to Scots Law, tit. Inferior judges, &c. bake bread. See Baking. BAILIFF, an officer appointed for the adminiftration of BAKEWELL, a large market town of Derbyffiire, about ji'ftice withing a certain diftridt, called a bailiwick. 150 miles from London. It is a good market for lead. BAiLiFFs-err^zz/, fuch as are appointed by the ffieriff, BAKING, the art of preparing bread, or reducing meals to go up and down the country, to ferve writs and of any kind, whether Ample or compound, into bread. warrants, fummon country-courts, feffions, affizes, and The various forms of baking among us may be rethe like. duced into two, the one for leavened, the other for Bailiffs of franchifes, thofe appointed by every lord unleavened bread; for the firft, the chief is manchetwithin his liberty to do fuch offices therein as the baking, the procefs whereof is as follows. The meal, ground and boulted, is put into a trough, bailiff-errant does at large in the country. There are alfo bailiffs of forefts, and bailiffs of ma- and to every buffiel are poured in about three pints of nors, who diredt hufbandry, fell trees, gather rents, warm ale, with barm and fait to feafon it: this is pay quit-rents, kneaded well together with the hands through the Water-BAitivv, an officer appointed in all port-towns, brake ; or for want thereof, with the feet, through a for the fearching of ffiips, gathering the toll for ancho- cloth ; after which, having lain an hour to fwell, it is rage, ire. and arrefting perfons for debt, &c. on the moulded into manchets, which fcorched in the middle, water. and pricked at top, to give room to rile, are baked in BAILIWICK, that liberty which is exempted from the the oven by a gentle fire. For the fecond, fometimes called cheat-bread baffieriff of the county; over which liberty the lord thereof appoints his own bailiff, with the like power king, it is thus : fome leaven (faved from a former within his precindt, as an under-ffieriff exercifes under batch) filled with fait, laid up to four, and at length the ffieriff of the county: Or it fignifies the precindt diffolved in water, is ftrained through a cloth into a of a bailiff, or the place within which his jurifdidtion hole made in the middle of the heap of meal in the trough; then it is worked with fome of the flour into is terminated. BAILO, thus they ftyle at Conftantinople the -ambaffa- a moderate confiftence; this is covered up with meal, dor of the republic of Venice, who refides at the where it lies all night and in the morning the whole Porte. This minifter, befides his political charge, adts heap is ftirred up, and mixed with a little warm water, barm, and fait, by which it is feafoned, foftened, there the part of a conful of Venice. BAIOCAO, a copper-coin, current at Rome, and and brought to an even leaven: it is then kneaded, throughout the whole date of the church, ten of moulded, and baked, as before. which make a julio, and an hundred a Roman crown. Baking ofporcelain. See Porcelain. in geography, a market-town of Marionethffiire, BAIRAM, in the Mahometan cuftoms, a yearly feftival B ALA, 16 miles fouth from Denbigh, in 30 40' W. long, of the Turks, which they keep after the fall of Ra- about and 520 55' N. lat. mazan. The Mahometans have two bairams, the great and BALAsNA, or whale, in zoology, a genus of the mambelonging to the order of cete. The chathe little. The little bairam holds for three days, malia clafs, of this genus are thefe : The balaena, in place and is feventy days after the firft, which follows im- ofradters teeth, has a horny plate in the upper jaw, and a mediately the ramazan. During the bairam, the people leave their work for three days, make prefents to double fiftula or pipe for throwing out water. The one another, and fpend the time with great manifefta- fpecies are four; viL 1. The myftieetus, which has tions of joy. If the day after ramazan ffiould be fo many turnings and windings in its noftrils, and has no it is cloudy as to prevent the fight of the new moon, the fin on the back. This is the largeft of all animals ;often