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.

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.