These are the meanings of the letters BALLI when you unscramble them.
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Bail (n.)
A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat.
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Bail (v. t.)
To lade; to dip and throw; -- usually with out; as, to bail water out of a boat.
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Bail (v. t.)
To dip or lade water from; -- often with out to express completeness; as, to bail a boat.
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Bail (v./t.)
To deliver; to release.
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Bail (v./t.)
To set free, or deliver from arrest, or out of custody, on the undertaking of some other person or persons that he or they will be responsible for the appearance, at a certain day and place, of the person bailed.
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Bail (v./t.)
To deliver, as goods in trust, for some special object or purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed on the part of the bailee, or person intrusted; as, to bail cloth to a tailor to be made into a garment; to bail goods to a carrier.
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Bail (n.)
Custody; keeping.
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Bail (n.)
The person or persons who procure the release of a prisoner from the custody of the officer, or from imprisonment, by becoming surely for his appearance in court.
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Bail (n.)
The security given for the appearance of a prisoner in order to obtain his release from custody of the officer; as, the man is out on bail; to go bail for any one.
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Bail (n.)
The arched handle of a kettle, pail, or similar vessel, usually movable.
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Bail (n.)
A half hoop for supporting the cover of a carrier's wagon, awning of a boat, etc.
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Bail (n.)
A line of palisades serving as an exterior defense.
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Bail (n.)
The outer wall of a feudal castle. Hence: The space inclosed by it; the outer court.
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Bail (n.)
A certain limit within a forest.
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Bail (n.)
A division for the stalls of an open stable.
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Bail (n.)
The top or cross piece ( or either of the two cross pieces) of the wicket.
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Ball (n.)
Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as, a ball of twine; a ball of snow.
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Ball (n.)
A spherical body of any substance or size used to play with, as by throwing, knocking, kicking, etc.
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Ball (n.)
A general name for games in which a ball is thrown, kicked, or knocked. See Baseball, and Football.
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Ball (n.)
Any solid spherical, cylindrical, or conical projectile of lead or iron, to be discharged from a firearm; as, a cannon ball; a rifle ball; -- often used collectively; as, powder and ball. Spherical balls for the smaller firearms are commonly called bullets.
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Ball (n.)
A flaming, roundish body shot into the air; a case filled with combustibles intended to burst and give light or set fire, or to produce smoke or stench; as, a fire ball; a stink ball.
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Ball (n.)
A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; -- formerly used by printers for inking the form, but now superseded by the roller.
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Ball (n.)
A roundish protuberant portion of some part of the body; as, the ball of the thumb; the ball of the foot.
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Ball (n.)
A large pill, a form in which medicine is commonly given to horses; a bolus.
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Ball (n.)
The globe or earth.
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Ball (v. i.)
To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls; as, the horse balls; the snow balls.
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Ball (v. t.)
To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.
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Ball (v. t.)
To form or wind into a ball; as, to ball cotton.
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Ball (n.)
A social assembly for the purpose of dancing.
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Bill (n.)
A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal.
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Bill (v. i.)
To strike; to peck.
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Bill (v. i.)
To join bills, as doves; to caress in fondness.
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Bill (n.)
The bell, or boom, of the bittern
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Bill (n.)
A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle; -- used in pruning, etc.; a billhook. When short, called a hand bill, when long, a hedge bill.
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Bill (n.)
A weapon of infantry, in the 14th and 15th centuries. A common form of bill consisted of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, having a short pike at the back and another at the top, and attached to the end of a long staff.
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Bill (n.)
One who wields a bill; a billman.
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Bill (n.)
A pickax, or mattock.
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Bill (n.)
The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke.
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Bill (v. t.)
To work upon ( as to dig, hoe, hack, or chop anything) with a bill.
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Bill (n.)
A declaration made in writing, stating some wrong the complainant has suffered from the defendant, or a fault committed by some person against a law.
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Bill (n.)
A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document.
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Bill (n.)
A form or draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
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Bill (n.)
A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods; a placard; a poster; a handbill.
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Bill (n.)
An account of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; a statement of a creditor's claim, in gross or by items; as, a grocer's bill.
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Bill (n.)
Any paper, containing a statement of particulars; as, a bill of charges or expenditures; a weekly bill of mortality; a bill of fare, etc.
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Bill (v. t.)
To advertise by a bill or public notice.
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Bill (v. t.)
To charge or enter in a bill; as, to bill goods.