Definition of bay

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Bay (n.) A bank or dam to keep back water.

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Disembay :: Disembay (v. t.) To clear from a bay.
Rosebay :: Rosebay (n.) Any shrub of the genus Rhododendron.
Ferry :: Ferry (v. t.) A franchise or right to maintain a vessel for carrying passengers and freight across a river, bay, etc., charging tolls..
Bay :: Bay (v. t.) To bathe.
Fraise :: Fraise (v. t.) To protect, as a line of troops, against an onset of cavalry, by opposing bayonets raised obliquely forward..
Tank :: Tank (n.) A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight; also, a Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls..
Flea-bitten :: Flea-bitten (a.) White, flecked with minute dots of bay or sorrel; -- said of the color of a horse..
Bayoneting :: Bayoneting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bayone.
Cantabrian :: Cantabrian (a.) Of or pertaining to Cantabria on the Bay of Biscay in Spain.
Laurin :: Laurin (n.) A white crystalline substance extracted from the fruit of the bay (Laurus nobilis), and consisting of a complex mixture of glycerin ethers of several organic acids..
Homophonous :: Homophonous (a.) Expressing the same sound by a different combination of letters; as, bay and bey..
Tail-bay :: Tail-bay (n.) One of the joists which rest one end on the wall and the other on a girder; also, the space between a wall and the nearest girder of a floor. Cf. Case-bay..
Bay :: Bay (n.) A recess or indentation shaped like a bay.
Bays :: Bays (n.) Alt. of Bayz.
Creek :: Creek (n.) A small inlet or bay, narrower and extending further into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river..
Bay :: Bay (n.) 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..
Embayment :: Embayment (n.) A bay.
Bay :: Bay (v. i.) To bark, as a dog with a deep voice does, at his game..
Unfix :: Unfix (v. t.) To loosen from a fastening; to detach from anything that holds; to unsettle; as, to unfix a bayonet; to unfix the mind or affections..
Rosebay :: Rosebay (n.) An herb (Epilobium spicatum) with showy purple flowers, common in Europe and North America; -- called also great willow herb..
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