The Collaborative International Dictionary
Baillie \Bail"lie\, n.
Bailiff. [Obs.]
Same as Bailie. [Scot.]
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) The jurisdiction of a bailie or bailiff; a bailiwick. 2 (context Scottish local government English) The equivalent of alderman in some Scottish cities.
Wikipedia
Baillie is a surname of Scottish origin. Notable people with the surname include:
- Baillie of Jerviswood (died 1684), Scottish conspirator
- Sir Adrian Baillie, 6th Baronet (1898–1947), British politician
- Albert Victor Baillie, Anglican clergyman
- Alec Baillie, American bassist
- Alexander Baillie, English cellist
- Allan Baillie (born 1943), Australian writer
- Augustus Baillie (1861–1939), British soldier and lawyer
- Bill Baillie (born 1934), New Zealand athlete
- Bjorn Baillie (born 1976), Irish musician
- Bruce Baillie (born 1931), film director
- Caroline Baillie, materials scientist and academic
- Charles Baillie (various)
- Chris Baillie, Scottish athlete
- Cuthbert Baillie
- David Baillie (born 1977), Scottish writer and illustrator
- David Baillie (footballer) (1905–1967), English footballer
- Donald Macpherson Baillie (1887–1954), Scottish theologian, ecumenist, and parish minister
- Doug Baillie (born 1937), Scottish footballer and sportswriter
- Evan Baillie (1741 – 1835), British West Indies merchant, landowner and Whig politician
- Sir Frank Wilton Baillie (1875–1921), Canadian industrialist
- Lady Grisell Baillie, (1822–1891), first woman to be created a Deaconess in the Church of Scotland
- Lady Grizel Baillie, (1665–1746), Scottish songwriter
- Henry Baillie (1803–1885), British Conservative politician
- James Baillie, various James Baillies
- Sir Gawaine Baillie, 7th Baronet (1934–2003), amateur motor racing driver, engineer, industrialist, stamp collector
- Isobel Baillie (1895–1983), Scottish soprano
- Jackie Baillie (born 1964), Labour Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Dumbarton constituency
- James Black Baillie (1872–1940), British moral philosopher
- James Evan Bruce Baillie (1859–1931), British Unionist politician
- Joanna Baillie (1762–1851), poet and dramatist
- Joe Baillie (1929–1966), Scottish footballer
- John Baillie (various)
- Jonathan Baillie (born 1985), Scottish footballer
- Martha Baillie (born 1960), Canadian poet and novelist
- Marianne Baillie (1795?-1830), nee Wathen, traveller and verse-writer
- Matthew Baillie (1761–1823), Scottish physician and pathologist
- Michael Baillie, 3rd Baron Burton (1924–2013), British peer
- Mike Baillie, Professor of Palaeoecology at Queen's University of Belfast
- Noel Bailie, Northern Irish footballer
- Olive, Lady Baillie (1899–1974), Anglo-American heiress
- Robert Baillie (1602–1662), Scottish divine and historical writer
- Thomas Baillie (1796–1863), British soldier
- Timothy Baillie, British slalom canoer
- William Baillie (various)
Usage examples of "baillie".
Before him lie Argyll and Baillie with horse and foot, which are to his heathen hirelings as four men to one.
James should have held it in leash till he had routed Argyll and Baillie and Hurry, and brought the Kirk and Estates to their knees, is a proof of genius for war that Gustavus never bettered.
William Hunter, the brother of Agnes and Joanna Baillie, was a celebrated anatomist.
In 1846, Margaret Fuller wrote an account of a visit she had just paid to Joanna Baillie, whom she had long honored almost above any of her sex.
Miss Aikin also held a constant intercourse, through a large part of her life, with Joanna Baillie, whom she always regarded with profound honor and love.
Barbauld, she says, Joanna Baillie made by far the deepest impression on her.
No one had suspected the great genius of Joanna Baillie, so thick a veil of modest reserve had covered it.
Anyhow three tinkler ruffians of the Baillie clan were on the trail, and had followed Bauldy to his camp for the night.
At length two persons, Spence and Carstares, being put to the torture, gave evidence which involved the earl of Tarras and some others, who, in order to save themselves, were reduced to accuse Baillie.
I composed the other day, on a charming Ayrshire girl, Miss Leslie Baillie, as she passed through this place to England, will suit your taste better than the Collier Lassie, fall on and welcome.
Frankie Hegarty, Brigid Baillie, David Byrne, Chaz Brenchley, Jai Penna, and Sharon Zukowski.
Baillie declares to be an enlightened man, and perfectly sincere in his convictions, brought his own medicines from the pharmacy which furnished Hahnemann himself, and employed them for four or five months upon patients in his ward, and with results equally unsatisfactory, as appears from Dr.
Baillie, one of the physicians in the great Hotel Dieu of Paris, invited two Homoeopathic practitioners to experiment in his wards.
Burleigh, Nevinson, Battersby, Stuart, Amery, Atkins, Baillie, Kinneir, Churchill, James, Ralph, Barnes, Maxwell, Pearce, Hamilton, and others.