Associations to the word «Baillie»

Wiktionary

BAILLIE, noun. (obsolete) The jurisdiction of a bailie or bailiff; a bailiwick.
BAILLIE, noun. (Scottish local government) The equivalent of alderman in some Scottish cities.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne