Bailler le bouquet. To bid one do in his turne that which others haue done before him (In some parts of France, when a feast is ended, whereat neighbours haue met, and beene merrie together, the master thereof deliuers vnto some one of the company a nosegay, & thereby tyes him to make the next.) Bailler bris contre Robert. Looke Bris. Bailler des canards à la moitié. To cousen, beguile, conicatch; to play the mountebanke. Bailler des cassades. To flout, frumpe; lye, cog; deceiue, gull, well-meaning people. Bailler des plus cornues. Looke Cornu. Bailler la Diane. Souldiours to rouze their enemies with a hot mornings allarum; to giue a Camisadoe. Bailler vne entorce. To offer hard measure, to giue a shrewd wring, a cruell pinch, a vile blowe vnto. Bailler des febues à my-croist. To deceiue, cousen, gull, conycatch; to play th' impostor. Bailler le fil. To flatter, cog, smooth, glose with; (à vn couteau; to set an edge on it.) Bailler foin en corne. To giue one the boots, to sell him a bargaine. Bailler du foin à la mule. To deceiue, beguile, gull, conycatch. Bailler griefs. To open ones griefes, to complaine of wrongs done him, before a Court, or assembly; to exhibit vnto the Court a relation, or complaint of these things. Bailler la haire. To play a shrewd tricke, ill pranke, hard part; to serue an euill touch. Bailler par les iouës de. To lay sure hold on; also, to enter deepely; imbarke himselfe farre; plunge at first into the middle of. Bailler la main. To reach a hand; Looke Main. Bailler le moine. To crampe; also, to bring ill lucke vnto. Bailler le Moine par le col. To hang, or twitch vp. Bailler mornifle sur les levres du Roy. To coine false money. Bailler sur le mouffle. To lay on the lips, to pash on the snout, to giue a dash on the mouth. Bailler sur le nez du Roy. To coyne false money. Bailler vne oeillade. To winke, or cast a wanton eye, at. Bailler du plat de la langue. To sooth, smooth, flatter, cog with. Bailler vne mauvaise secousse à vn. To shake, or swing one cruelly; to do him a mischieuous turne.
Baillet: m. A pale red, or flesh colour; also, a horse that hath a white spot, or starre, in his forhead.
Baillet: m. Baillette: f. Of a pale red, or flesh colour. Vache baillette. A pide cow, red and white. Vin baillet. A pallet, or pale Claret, wine.
Baillette: f. A Pochard, or Widgion; or, a little water-fowle, that somewhat resembles the Teale; also, a lease, or graunt; and, a leasing, or letting to farme.
Bailleur: m. A giuer, granter, bestower; dealer, distributer, deliuerer; presenter, exhibiter. Bailleur de bons iours. An ordinarie saluter of euery one he sees, or meets; a fawning, or populer fellow; a cogging, or glosing companion. Bailleur de Canards à la moitié; ou, de febues à my-croist. A cousening Iacke; a mountebanke; a deceiuer, imposter, conycatcher.
Bailleures. Looke Baillieures.
Bailli: m. A Bailife (but of much more authoritie than ours) a Magistrat appointed within a Prouince, or precinct certaine, to execute iustice, maintaine the peace,
and preserue the people from oppression, vexation, and wrong: To which end he takes notice of treasons committed, false money coyned; robberies, and murthers done; rebellions, or seditions raised; vnlawfull, or populer assemblies made; Armes borne, or souldiours leuied, without warrant; Protections, or Sanctuaries violated; Pardons, and Charters abused; Faires, markets, freedomes, and other priuiledges vsurped, or vniustly stood on: Hee makes proclamations in his owne name; he calls the Ban, and Arriereban; leads those that he raised by it; and appoints th' ordinarie musters of his Prouince: hee determines Appeales from the sentences of Prouosts, and other inferior Iudges, at Assises, whereof he is the principall Iudge; and is thereby held the most proper Iudge for Gentlemen, who haue euer pretended that their causes must bee decided at Assises; and yet for all this, (and though hee may haue a Lieutenant) he is but a Deputie, either vnto the king, or vnto some lord; euery one whereof (vnto the Chastellain) hath, or may haue, a Bailli within his territories. Baillis de France. Were but foure in old time, when the French kings had ioynrest of the Bailifes royall, whereof ed to their demains but foure townes, viz. Vermendois, Sens, Mascon, and S. Pierre de Moustier (all other the townes, and Bailiwikes of France being then in the possession of Dukes, or Earles) and therefore the Bailies of those townes are to this day called, les 4 anciens Baillis de France, thereby to differ somewhat from the there are now very many. Baillis de Prouinces. The Bailifes of Prouinces, or of superiour Bailiwikes; The Bailifes of Dukes, Marquesses, and Earles; called so in difference from those that belong to Vicounts, Barons, and Chastellains; which are inferiour vnto, and oftentimes depend on, the other. Baillis Royaux. The Bailifes Royall, wherof (as I haue said) there be very many (by reason of the revnion vnto the Crowne of th' ancient Dukes, and Earles estates; and otherwise by new erections,) who besides other prerogatiues challenge th' entire decision of royall, and priuiledged, cases. Grand baillis. as Baillis de Prouinces. Le grand bailli d'Henault. The chiefe Iustice of that countie.
Bailliage: m. A Bailiwike; the office, iurisdiction, or authoritie of a Bailli; also, the Prouince, or precinct wherein he gouernes; and sometimes (absolutely) a Prouince; In some old authors, and customes it also imports, as much as, protectiue iustice; and euer holds a more honourable ranke than simple, or ordinarie iurisdiction.
Bailliage du Palais. Is (at Paris) a iurisdiction ouer Marchants, & Tradesmen, which owe for their wares within that citie, and the liberties thereof.
Droict de bailliage. Power to keepe Assises; or to haue vnder him a Bailli, and a superiour seat, or Court, of iustice for the decision of such great causes as, in due course, belong not to an ordinarie iurisdiction; This power euerie Lord of dignitie (from the Duke to the Chastellain) hath; and had withall (for the decision of smaller causes) a Court of ordinarie iurisdiction, and a Iudge thereof called Iuge, or Garde de iustice, vntill the yeare 1573; when by an ordinance (made at Paris, but confirmed at Roussillon) they were enioyned to content themselues with onely one iurisdiction in one place; which though it bee gouerned, almost in one forme, by one, and the same Iudge, yet keepes hee still
