Anagrams of: BAILIES

• A bailiff.

• The chief magistrate of a Scottish barony or part of a county, with functions like a sheriff's.

• A municipal officer in Scotland corresponding to an English alderman.

• flat crusty-bottomed onion roll

• (mountaineering) a descent of a vertical cliff or wall made by using a doubled rope that is fixed to a higher point and wrapped around the body

• descend by means of a rappel

• (law) a defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question

• a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.

• exonerate by means of an alibi

• A bailiff.

• The chief magistrate of a Scottish barony or part of a county, with functions like a sheriff's.

• A municipal officer in Scotland corresponding to an English alderman.

• (law) a defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question

• a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.

• exonerate by means of an alibi

• (Roman Catholic Church) the bishop of Caesarea who defended the Roman Catholic Church against the heresies of the 4th century; a saint and Doctor of the Church (329-379)

• any of several Old World tropical aromatic annual or perennial herbs of the genus Ocimum

• leaves of the common basil; used fresh or dried

• an artist's brush made of sable hairs

• the expensive dark brown fur of the marten

• a very dark black

• a scarf (or trimming) made of sable

• marten of northern Asian forests having luxuriant dark brown fur

• of a dark somewhat brownish black