Bailpiece () A piece of parchment, or paper, containing a recognizance or bail bond.

Bain () A bath; a bagnio.

Bain-marie () A vessel for holding hot water in which another vessel may be heated without scorching its contents; -- used for warming or preparing food or pharmaceutical preparations.

Bairam () 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 () A child.

Baisemains () Respects; compliments.

Bait () Any substance, esp. food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, inclosure, or net.

Bait () Anything which allures; a lure; enticement; temptation.

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

Bait () A light or hasty luncheon.

Baited () of Bait

Baiting () of Bait

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

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

Bait () To furnish or cover with bait, as a trap or hook.

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

Bait () To flap the wings; to flutter as if to fly; or to hover, as a hawk when she stoops to her prey.

Baiter () One who baits; a tormentor.

Baize () A coarse woolen stuff with a long nap; -- usually dyed in plain colors.

Bajocco () A small copper coin formerly current in the Roman States, worth about a cent and a half.

Baked () of Bake

Baking () of Bake

Bake () 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.

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

Bake () To harden by cold.

Bake () To do the work of baking something; as, she brews, washes, and bakes.

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

Bake () The process, or result, of baking.

Bakehouse () A house for baking; a bakery.

Bakemeat () Alt. of Baked-meat

Baked-meat () A pie; baked food.

Baken () p. p. of Bake.

Baker () One whose business it is to bake bread, biscuit, etc.

Baker () A portable oven in which baking is done.

Baker-legged () Having legs that bend inward at the knees.

Bakery () The trade of a baker.

Bakery () The place for baking bread; a bakehouse.

Baking () The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and hardening by heat or cold.

Baking () The quantity baked at once; a batch; as, a baking of bread.

Bakingly () In a hot or baking manner.

Bakistre () A baker.

Baksheesh () Alt. of Bakshish

Bakshish () Same as Backsheesh.

Balaam () A paragraph describing something wonderful, used to fill out a newspaper column; -- an allusion to the miracle of Balaam's ass speaking.

Balachong () A condiment formed of small fishes or shrimps, pounded up with salt and spices, and then dried. It is much esteemed in China.

Balaenoidea () A division of the Cetacea, including the right whale and all other whales having the mouth fringed with baleen. See Baleen.

Balance () An apparatus for weighing.

Balance () Act of weighing mentally; comparison; estimate.

Balance () Equipoise between the weights in opposite scales.

Balance () The state of being in equipoise; equilibrium; even adjustment; steadiness.

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