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Strife; contention. Bailey.

BAILEY
ballium bailey, OF. bail, baille, a palisade, baillier to inclose, 1. The outer wall of a feudal castle. 2. The space immediately within the outer wall of a castle or fortress. 3. A prison or court of justice; -- used in certain proper names; as,
CONTENTION
1. A violent effort or struggle to obtain, or to resist, something; contest; strife. I would my arcontenion. Shak. 2. Strife in words; controversy; altercation quarrel; dispute; as, a bone of contention. Contentions and strivings about the law.
STRIFE
1. The act of striving; earnest endeavor. Shak. 2. Exertion or contention for superiority; contest of emulation, either by intellectual or physical efforts. Doting about questions and strifes of words. 1 Tim. vi. 4. Thus gods contended -- noble
STRIFEFUL
Contentious; discordant. The ape was strifeful and ambitious. Spenser.
LOOSESTRIFE
The name of several species of plants of the genus Lysimachia, having small star-shaped flowers, usually of a yellow color. Any species of the genus Lythrum, having purple, or, in some species, crimson flowers. Gray. False loosestrife, a plant
OSTRIFEROUS
Producing oysters; containing oysters.
ROSTRIFERA
A division of pectinibranchiate gastropods, having the head prolonged into a snout which is not retractile.
ASTRIFEROUS
Bearing stars. Blount.