Bay

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A tract covered with bay trees.

II. Bay ·vi Deep-toned, prolonged barking.

III. Bay ·noun A bank or dam to keep back water.

IV. Bay ·vt To Bathe.

V. Bay ·noun A berry, particularly of the laurel.

VI. Bay ·vt To dam, as water;

— with up or back.

VII. Bay ·noun A recess or indentation shaped like a bay.

VIII. Bay ·noun A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeachy Bay.

IX. Bay ·vi To bark, as a dog with a deep voice does, at his game.

X. Bay ·noun A compartment in a barn, for depositing hay, or grain in the stalks.

XI. Bay ·adj Reddish brown; of the color of a chestnut;

— applied to the color of horses.

XII. Bay ·noun An inlet of the sea, usually smaller than a gulf, but of the same general character.

XIII. Bay ·vt To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay; as, to bay the bear.

XIV. Bay ·vi A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible.

XV. Bay ·noun A small body of water set off from the main body; as a compartment containing water for a wheel; the portion of a canal just outside of the gates of a lock, ·etc.

XVI. Bay ·noun The laurel tree (Laurus nobilis). Hence, in the plural, an honorary garland or crown bestowed as a prize for victory or excellence, anciently made or consisting of branches of the laurel.

XVII. Bay ·noun A principal compartment of the walls, roof, or other part of a building, or of the whole building, as marked off by the buttresses, vaulting, mullions of a window, ·etc.; one of the main divisions of any structure, as the part of a bridge between two piers.

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