A surname.

(Scotland) A bailiff. / (Scotland) The chief magistrate of a Scottish barony or part of a county, with functions like a sheriff's.

plural of bailie

plural of Bailie

A surname.

plural of bailo

A magistrate appointed by the lord-superior in a burgh of barony.

(Scotland) water bailiff

plural of water bailie

(astronomy) A feature of total solar eclipses. As the moon "grazes" by the sun during a solar eclipse, the rugged lunar limb topography allows beads of sunlight to shine through in some places and not in others.