Bail
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): (n.) A line of palisades serving as an exterior defense.
(2): (n.) Custody; keeping.
(3): (v. t.) To dip or lade water from; - often with out to express completeness; as, to bail a boat.
(4): (v./t.) To deliver; to release.
(5): (n.) A division for the stalls of an open stable.
(6): (n.) The outer wall of a feudal castle. Hence: The space inclosed by it; the outer court.
(7): (v. t.) To lade; to dip and throw; - usually with out; as, to bail water out of a boat.
(8): (n.) The arched handle of a kettle, pail, or similar vessel, usually movable.
(9): (n.) The security given for the appearance of a prisoner in order to obtain his release from custody of the officer; as, the man is out on bail; to go bail for any one.
(10): (n.) A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat.
(11): (n.) A half hoop for supporting the cover of a carrier's wagon, awning of a boat, etc.
(12): (n.) A certain limit within a forest.
(13): (n.) The top or cross piece ( or either of the two cross pieces) of the wicket.
(14): (n.) The person or persons who procure the release of a prisoner from the custody of the officer, or from imprisonment, by becoming surely for his appearance in court.
(15): (v./t.) To set free, or deliver from arrest, or out of custody, on the undertaking of some other person or persons that he or they will be responsible for the appearance, at a certain day and place, of the person bailed.
(16): (v./t.) To deliver, as goods in trust, for some special object or purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed on the part of the bailee, or person intrusted; as, to bail cloth to a tailor to be made into a garment; to bail goods to a carrier.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]
(Heb. עָרַב, arab', to become surety; Gr. ἐγγυᾶσθαι ), as a legal regulation, does not occur in the Mosaic civil polity, nor is the word found in the Auth. Vers. of the Scriptures; but the custom nevertheless prevailed among the (later) Hebrews, as is evident from the many allusions to it in the Book of Proverbs. Indeed, these maxims are evidence of great rigor in the enforcement of such obligations ( Proverbs 11:15; Proverbs 17:18; Proverbs 22:26), and recommend great caution (6 sq.) in view of the fact that the security was treated quite as severely as the debtor (comp. the Mishna, Baba Bathra, 10:7) in whose stead he was held ( Proverbs 20:16; Proverbs 22:27). A somewhat milder sentiment is expressed in the Apocrypha ( Sirach 29:17), yet not without a warning to prudence (8 16; 29:21 [24]). (See Surety).
