Word Finder - bailey

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The outer wall of a feudal castle.

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The space immediately within the outer wall of a castle or fortress.

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(in certain proper names) A prison or court of justice.

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the Old Bailey in London; the New Bailey in Manchester

The walls around the bailey began to crumble.

The bailey was clean, the stables large and well-built.

Jenn took the boy's hand and led him out of the building into the bailey area.

Globigerina ooze was recognized as an important deposit as soon as the first successful deep-sea soundings had been made in the Atlantic. It was described simultaneously in 1853 by Bailey of West Point and Ehrenberg in Berlih.

On the 24th of November he was indicted for high treason at the Old Bailey, the chief ground being a paper of association for the defence of the Protestant religion, which, though among his papers, was not in his handwriting; but the grand jury ignored the bill.

The bailey or base-court containing other buildings and covering three times the area of the château extended between it and the village.

The line from Bishopsgate ran eastward to St Giles's churchyard (Cripplegate), where it turned to the south as far as Falcon square; again westerly by Aldersgate round the site of the Greyfriars (afterwards Christ's Hospital) towards Giltspur Street, then south by the Old Bailey to Ludgate, and then down to the Thames, where Dr Edwin Freshfield suggests that a Roman fortress stood on the site of Baynard's Castle.

In 1683 he appeared at the Old Bailey as a witness in defence of Lord Russell, and in June 1685 he protested alone against the revision of Stafford's attainder.

On July 1 9 he was tried at the Old Bailey, his wife assisting him in his defence.

The chief items were a new Great Gate with two flanking towers, a belfry for St George's Chapel and houses in the Lower Bailey, probably for the canons, and in the Upper Bailey, probably for the royal household.

C. Bailey brings final evidence of this (The Poems of Cowper, page 15).

There is also a translation by Cyril Bailey (Oxford, 1910).

Banks thereupon retreated, and, high water in the river having come to an end, the fleet was in the gravest danger of being cut off, until Colonel Bailey suggested, and rapidly carried out, the construction of a dam and weir over which the ships ran down to the lower waters.

Bailey, was accordingly despatched (1889), and the meridian photometer erected successively in three different positions on the slopes of the Andes.

P. Banks in the Red River expeditions in March-May 1864, in which his gun-boats, held above Alexandria by shallow water and rapids, narrowly escaped isolation, being enabled to return only by the help of a dam built by Lieut.-Colonel (BrigadierGeneral) Joseph Bailey (1827-1867).

Kellett, 1901; also the lectures on Greek and Roman Catholicism in Das Wesen des Christentums, translated by Bailey Saunders, 1902; the first-named work is the most suggestive general apercu of the whole subject - though written from a.

The inscription, "This made Wykeham," did exist on a small square tower in the Middle Bailey formerly known as Wykeham Tower, now entirely rebuilt with the inscription recopied and known as Winchester Tower.

Francis Bailey, state printer of Pennsylvania, was attracted by them and became active in their promulgation.

At the north end of the town there is a height, Bailey Hill (perhaps from ballia, the architectural term applied to fortified castle courts).

Bailey can hardly be classed as belonging either to the strictly empirical or to the idealist school, but his general tendency is towards the former.

Bailey Saunders, who has laboured to redeem his character from the suspicions generally current with English readers.

He was arrested, tried at the Old Bailey, and after being acquitted on a charge of stealing lace, found guilty of taking a reward for restoring it to the owner without informing the police.

The Union gunboats, which had passed up the river toward Shreveport at high water, were caught in its decline above the falls at Alexandria, but they were saved by a splendid piece of engineering (a dam at the falls), constructed by Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Bailey (1827-1867), who for this service received the thanks of Congress and the brevet of brigadier-general of volunteers.

Bailey, on examining 63 of them, found that with one exception their periods lay between 10 h 48 m.

The Old Bailey revelations removed all doubt as to the essential unhealthiness of his personal influence; but his literary genius was none the less remarkable, and his plays were perhaps the most original contributions to English dramatic writing during the period.

In 1677 Muggleton was tried at the Old Bailey, convicted of blasphemy, and fined Soo.

European geographers have been accustomed to divide the islands into three groups for purposes of nomenclature, calling the northern group the Parry Islands, the central the Beechey Islands and the southern the Coffin or Bailey Islands.

The concentric castle, with its rings of walls, began to displace the old keep and bailey with.

In Amen Court, where the residences of canons of St Paul's and the later houses of the minor canons are situated, there stretches such a piece of wall, dividing the gardens of the Court from the Old Bailey.

The Defence of the Realm Act and other war-time measures threw in these years a great burden of anxious work on the law officers of the Crown, including the prosecution of Sir Roger Casement for high treason at the Old Bailey.

In the mountains are elk, puma, lynx, the varying hare and snowshoe rabbit, the yellow-haired porcupine, Fremont's and Bailey's squirrels, the mountain sheep, the four-striped chipmunk, Townsend's spermophile, the prong-horned antelope, the cinnamon pack-rat, grizzly, brown, silvertip and black bears and the wolverine.

Maynard and his alleged accomplice Reg Dudley were convicted of murder at the Old Bailey in 1977 and had an appeal dismissed in 1979.

The verdict Following the 11 week Old Bailey trial, on 6 May 1994, the jury acquitted Malcolm Kennedy of murder.

Richard Bailey is an established Highpoint instructor and an enthusiastic alpinist who has accomplished some hard routes in winter conditions.

The keep towers over the walls surrounding the inner bailey with King's Gate in the center of the picture.

Located within the curtain wall, a series of 12th century buildings forming the inner bailey now exist only at foundation level.

The large area of grass is within the outer bailey of the castle.

Today the inner bailey is entered via a bridge over the moat toward the south of the castle.

The lower bailey would have been bordered by a timber palisade with a ditch outside.

The large outer bailey has lodgings, a prison and stables backing onto the curtain.

You can still see where the old bailey used to be.

It consisted of a massive gatehouse and a walled bailey, approached by a wooden drawbridge.

Situated in the upper part of the castle bailey it has long been a natural market place.

Longtown castle ruins is a one example of a motte and bailey castle, owned by Norman lords to maintain control over the Welsh.

Bailey has kidney problems and after catching chickenpox had to be admitted to the ward so doctors could keep an eye on her.

Bailey saw a cyborg that was, in appearance, a human head on a platter.

The motte consists of a central grass covered mound with an encircling ditch and bank, bailey and outer rampart.

The footpath takes you up a grass embankment, and straight into the bailey of the castle.

They added a new lower bailey, with an impressive twin-towered gatehouse.

Itâs actually quite wonderful to be reminded of what a truly masterful musician Bill Bailey actually is.