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bailie

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bail·ie  (bl)
n.
1. A Scottish municipal officer corresponding to an English alderman.
2. Obsolete A bailiff.
[Middle English baillie, town official, from Old French, variant of baillis; see bailiff.]
bailie [ˈbeɪlɪ]
n
1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (in Scotland) a municipal magistrate
2. (Business / Professions) an obsolete or dialect spelling of bailiff
[from Old French bailli, from earlier baillif]


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One night, within four-and-twenty hours of the time when he had settled to take shipping for London, my uncle supped at the house of a very old friend of his, a Bailie Mac something and four syllables after it, who lived in the old town of Edinburgh.
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