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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.

 

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