Word Meanings - BAIL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat. The bail of a canoe . . . made of a human skull. Capt. Cook.
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- HOSTAGE
A person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or stipulations of any kind, on the performance of which the person is to be released. Your hostages I have, so have you mine; And we shall talk before - SPONSORIAL
Pertaining to a sponsor. - SURETYSHIP
The state of being surety; the obligation of a person to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another. Bouvier. - SURETY
One who is bound with and for another who is primarily liable, and who is called the principal; one who engages to answer for another's appearance in court, or for his payment of a debt, or for performance of some act; a bondsman; a bail. He that - SPONSOR
1. One who binds himself to answer for another, and is responsible for his default; a surety. 2. One who at the baptism of an infant professore the christian faith in its name, and guarantees its religious education; a godfather or godmother. - SPONSORSHIP
State of being a sponsor. - UNSURETY
Want of surety; uncertainty; insecurity; doubt. Sir T. More. - RESPONSORIAL
Responsory; antiphonal. J. H. Newman. - COSURETY
One who is surety with another. - NONSURETY
Insecurity. - RESPONSORY
Containing or making answer; answering. Johnson. - DESPONSORY
A written pledge of marriage. Clarendon.