(n.) An officer in Scotland, whose office formerly corresponded to that of sheriff, but now corresponds to that of an English alderman.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rigid copper-constantan and flexible Baily thermocouples were used to monitor temperature responses.
(2) What you will notice is the very good coffee (from £1.65, supplied by local roasters, Bailies), the fantastic cakes and scones (around £1.80), and a reasonably priced menu of sandwiches, wraps and daily specials, such as red Thai vegetable curry.
(3) In contrast, behavior modifiers and those using physical treatments such as psychosurgery claim rates of improvement and success which sometimes exceed 90 percent (Baily et al., 1973; Hunter-Brown, 1972; Paul, 1965; Rachman, 1971).
(4) Baily Logue, Cliven’s 24-year-old daugher, told the Guardian: “Anytime anyone speaks out against the federal government, we are taken down, put into jail and detained … But we’re not backing down, and this is not going to make us any weaker at all.
(5) Z. fermentati was found highly resistant to the proteolytic enzymes tested, whereas Z. baili was only trypsin-resistant.
(6) A studio spokeswoman said Wednesday that Paramount would fight the proposed follow-up to the 1946 holiday classic starring Jimmy Stewart as George Baily, a desperate family man who imagines what his town would be like if he'd never been born.
(7) In this report we demonstrate how the recently developed biotinylated affinity label biotinyl-Phe-Ala-diazomethane (Bio-Phe-Ala-CHN2) [Cullen, McGinty, Walker, Nelson, Halliday, Bailie & Kay (1990) Biochem.
(8) Those relatively few judgments that the IPT does publish will in future be available on the British and Irish Legal Information Institute (Baili) website.
Bailiwick
Definition:
(n.) The precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction; the limits of a bailiff's authority.
Example Sentences:
(1) His rich vocabulary , including such rarely used words as "bailiwick", "condign", "propinquity" and "occlude", lifted the tone of the long sessions before Lord Justice Leveson.
(2) They were understandably wary of this provision given that housing decisions ought primarily to be the bailiwick of parliament and not the courts.