Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
the agent to whom property involved in a bailment is delivered;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Bailee \Bail`ee"\ (b[=a]l`[=e]"), n. [OF. baill['e], p. p. of
bailler. See Bail to deliver.] (Law)
The person to whom goods are committed in trust, and who has
a temporary possession and a qualified property in them, for
the purposes of the trust. --Blackstone.
[1913 Webster]
Note: In penal statutes the word includes those who receive
goods for another in good faith. --Wharton.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
bailee
n 1: the agent to whom property involved in a bailment is
delivered