bailie noun¹. ['beɪli] Also baillie. ME.
[Old French bailli(s): see BAILIFF.]
1. = BAILIFF. obsolete exc. dial. ME.
2. Scot.
a. The chief magistrate of a barony or part of a county. Long obsolete exc. Hist. LME.
b. A municipal councillor serving as a magistrate. Now Hist. exc. as an honorary title conferred on a senior councillor. LME.

■ bailiery ['beɪlɪǝri, -lɪri] noun (Scot., obsolete exc. Hist.) the office or jurisdiction of a bailie; the district under the jurisdiction of a bailie: LME.

■ bailieship noun (obsolete exc. Hist.) = BAILIWICK LME.

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