lingmashen")

A form of bail-scoop (which see). bailiwick (bā'li-wik), n. [ -wike , etc.; bailie2 + -wick .] The coun ty within which a sheriff exercises his office; etc., + -wike, etc.; the precincts in which a bailiff has jurisdiction; the limits of a bailiff's authority, as (in s (in England) a hundred, a liberty, or a forest over which a bailiff is appointed. There is a proper officer all read ye appoynted for these turnes, to witt the sheriff of the shire, whose peculiar office it is to walke continual lye up and downe his balywick, as ye would have a marshall. Spenser, State of Ireland. [F.] See bailiage2 . See bailey1 . See bailie2 . See baily3 .