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"BAILIWICK, balliva, is not only taken for the county, but signifies generally that liberty which is exempted from the sheriff of the county, over which the lord of the liberty appointeth a bailiff, with such powers within his precinct as an under-sheriff exerciseth under the sheriff of the county; such as the bailiff of Westminster." Jacob's Law Dict. Tomlin's do.
Pitt at length recalled him, because 'he never heard from him, and could not know what he was doing. See Chalmers's Biog. Dict. xi. 161 for an account of a controversy about the identity of this writer with an historian of the same name. He had paid but little attention to his own rule. See ante, ii. 119.
"Its houses were built of good things to eat: roast geese went slowly down the street, turning themselves, and inviting the passersby to eat them; buttered larks fell in profusion; the shingles of the houses were of cake." Cent. Dict.
I jolly well ballyragged Joseph Antony Kinsella until he opened his last cask of illicit whisky. 'Illicit' is what both father and Lord Torrington called it and at first I didn't know what that meant, but I looked it out in the dict. and now do know, also how to spell it, which I shouldn't otherwise. Then we had a most frightful scene in Joseph Antony Kinsella's cottage. Lady Isabel was splendid.
But now at Olympia hast thou won a crown, O Ergoteles, and at Pytho twice, and at Isthmos, whereby thou glorifiest the hot springs where the nymphs Sicilian bathe, dwelling in a land that is become to thee as thine own. For details, see Dict. It is thought that this ode was sung on the winner's public entrance into Corinth.
Tomline's Law Dict., word Court-Leet. Of course the jury were the judges in this court, where only a "steward" or "bailiff" of a manor presided. Gilbert's History of the Common Pleas, Introduction, p. 19. Gilbert's History of the Common Pleas, p. 70, note.
Lamont who killed 600 of these animals, the hood is rudimentary in the females, and it is not developed in the males during youth. On the sea-elephant, see an article by Lesson, in 'Dict. Class. Hist. Nat. tom. xiii. p. 418. For the Cystophora, or Stemmatopus, see Dr. Dekay, 'Annals of Lyceum of Nat. Hist. New York, vol. i. 1824, p. 94.
"Here, then," said my father, "is more and better." And he handed him the papers. "It meets! It meets!" cried Dessauer, enthusiastically, as he glanced them over. "It is complete. It would stand probation in the Dict of the Emperor." "But yet all that will not prevent Helene Gottfried dying at the stake!" cried my father, sadly, and fell back unconscious on his bed.
We have next to inquire whether this view of the bright colours of certain male fishes having been acquired through sexual selection can, through the law of the equal transmission of characters to both sexes, be extended to those groups in which the males and females are brilliant in the same, or nearly the same degree and manner. Bory Saint Vincent, in 'Dict. Class. d'Hist.
It is quite likely, however, that this sort of deposit is only a piece of the general calcification of tissue in arteriosclerosis and old age, and could not be caused by the administration of calcium to a younger patient, and might then occur in older patients even if substances containing much calcium were kept out of the dict.
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