bailie

[ bey-lee ]

/ ˈbeɪ li /

(in Scotland) a municipal officer or magistrate, corresponding to an English alderman.

Obsolete. bailiff.

Origin of bailie

1250–1300; Middle English baillie < Old French bailli, variant of baillif bailiff

sub·bail·ie, noun

Meantime the Bailie, notwithstanding the success of his first onset, was sorely bested.

Rob Roy, Complete, Illustrated |Sir Walter Scott
It is the same case with the Edinburgh bailie and the miller of the Canonmills, worthy man!

Records of a Family of Engineers |Robert Louis Stevenson
I suspect, Tom, you and the Bailie were rather convivial after supper.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 |Various
But as the Bailie insisted, and as the party evidently wished to accept, he could not hold out.

Red Cap Tales |Samuel Rutherford Crockett

Bailie Craigdallie and a brother magistrate closed the melancholy procession, exhibiting similar marks of mourning.

The Fair Maid of Perth |Sir Walter Scott

bailie

/ (ˈbeɪlɪ) /

(in Scotland) a municipal magistrate

an obsolete or dialect spelling of bailiff

C13: from Old French bailli, from earlier baillif bailiff