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1. Anton Piller, n. View full entry 1978
...Used attrib. (usu. as Anton Piller order) to designate a court order which requires the defendant in proceedings to permit the plaintiff or his legal representatives to enter...
2. Babylon, n.2 View full entry 1530
...derogatory. The city of Rome as the seat of the Pope and the centre of authority of the Roman Catholic Church; (more generally) the Roman Catholic Church, its institutions, practices, etc....
3. bad, adj., n.2, and adv. View full entry 1203
...Of poor quality or little worth....
4. Bangorian, adj. View full entry 1718
...a religious controversy raised by a sermon preached before the king in 1717 by Benjamin Hoadly, Bishop of Bangor, directed against the non-jurors....
5. † ˈBartolist, n. View full entry 1602
...A student of Bartolo; one skilled in the law....
6. basket, n. View full entry a1300
...A vessel of wickerwork, made of plaited osiers, cane, rushes, bast, or other materials....
7. beagle, n. View full entry ?c1475
...A small variety of hound, tracking by scent, formerly used in hunting hares, but now superseded by the Harrier, which sometimes takes its name....
8. beak, n.3 View full entry 1799
...A magistrate or justice of the peace....
9. beg, v. View full entry ?c1225
...To ask alms or by way of alms....
10. bobby, n. View full entry 1844
...Probably in allusion to the name of Mr. (afterwards Sir) Robert Peel, who was Home Secretary when the new Metropolitan Police Act was passed in 1828. A slang nickname for...
11. bone, v.2 View full entry 1819
...trans. To take into custody, apprehend; to lay hold of; to seize and take possession of, steal....
12. BOSS, n.9 View full entry 1969
...The state security service of the Republic of South Africa, established in 1969 and renamed National Intelligence Service in 1978....
13. Bow-street, n. View full entry 1812
...A police officer....
14. bridewell, n. View full entry 1589
...A house of correction for prisoners; a place of forced labour; a gaol, prison. Also fig....
15. bum, n.1 View full entry a1387
...‘The buttocks, the part on which we sit’ (Johnson); the posteriors....
16. † bum-court, n. View full entry 1544
...Apparently, a vulgar nickname for the Ecclesiastical Court....
17. bundle, n. View full entry a1382
...That which binds; a bandage. Obs.rare....
18. † ˈburghal-ˌpenny, n. View full entry c1177
...A municipal tax of some kind; in ancient charters certain monasteries are exempted from paying it....
19. docket, n.1 View full entry a1483
...(?) Obs....
20. dog, n.1 View full entry OE
...A domesticated carnivorous mammal, Canis familiaris (or C. lupus familiaris), which typically has a long snout, an acute sense of smell, non-retractile claws, and a barking, howling, or...
