Bay
[beɪ] or [be]
Definition
(noun.) a horse of a moderate reddish-brown color.
(noun.) a compartment in an aircraft used for some specific purpose; 'he opened the bomb bay'.
(noun.) a compartment on a ship between decks; often used as a hospital; 'they put him in the sick bay'.
(noun.) the sound of a hound on the scent.
(noun.) an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf.
(verb.) bark with prolonged noises, of dogs.
(verb.) utter in deep prolonged tones.
(adj.) (used of animals especially a horse) of a moderate reddish-brown color .
Checker: Patty--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Reddish brown; of the color of a chestnut; -- applied to the color of horses.
(n.) An inlet of the sea, usually smaller than a gulf, but of the same general character.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A recess or indentation shaped like a 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.
(n.) A compartment in a barn, for depositing hay, or grain in the stalks.
(n.) A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeachy Bay.
(n.) A berry, particularly of the laurel.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A tract covered with bay trees.
(v. i.) To bark, as a dog with a deep voice does, at his game.
(v. t.) To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay; as, to bay the bear.
(v. i.) Deep-toned, prolonged barking.
(v. i.) A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible.
(v. t.) To bathe.
(n.) A bank or dam to keep back water.
(v. t.) To dam, as water; -- with up or back.
Editor: Sheldon
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Reddish-brown.
n. [1]. Bight, inlet of the sea.[2]. Recess (as in a room), opening.[3]. Compartment.[4]. Bay-tree, laurel-tree (Laurus nobilis).
v. n. Bark.
Edited by Katy
Definition
adj. reddish brown inclining to chestnut.—n. elliptical for 'bay-horse.'—n. Bayard (bā′ard) a bay-horse: a name for any horse generally from 'Bayard ' the famous bay-coloured magic horse given to Renaud by Charlemagne: a man recklessly blind to danger: a fellow bold in his ignorance: a type of the knight from Bayard (1476-1524) 'the knight without fear and without reproach.'
n. an inlet of the sea with a wider opening than a gulf: an inward bend of the shore.
n. barking baying (esp. of a dog when in pursuit): the combined cry of hounds in conflict with a hunted animal: used often of the last stand of a hunted animal when it faces the hounds at close quarters.—v.i. to bark (esp. of large dogs).—v.t. to bark at: to utter by baying: to follow with barking: to bring to bay.—To hold keep at bay said of the hunted animal; To stand be at bay at close quarters.
n. the laurel-tree: (pl.) an honorary garland or crown of victory originally of laurel: literary renown.—ns. Bay′berry; Bay′-rum an aromatic stimulant used for the skin and hair and prepared by distilling the leaves of the bay-berry (Pimenta acris) with rum or otherwise mixing the volatile oil of the leaves with alcohol.
n. the space between two columns: (Shak.) the space under one house gable: any recess.—n. Bay′-win′dow any window forming a recess.—adj. Bay′-win′dowed.
v.t. (Spens.) to bathe.
Typist: Tim
Examples
- He was undeniably a prosperous man, bore his drinking better than others bore their moderation, and, on the whole, flourished like the green bay-tree. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- In 1747, {See Hutchinson's History of Massachusetts Bay vol. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Love looks and longs, and dares not; Passion hovers round, and is kept at bay; Truth and Devotion are scared. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He has a white Pony to come and fetch him, and a groom in livery on a bay mare. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- A great bank, half a mile out, nigh the mouth of the bay, breaks the force of the main ocean coming in from the offing. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I heard the thunder of the sea on the sand-bank at the mouth of the bay. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The heave of the main ocean on the great sandbank out in the bay, was a heave that made no sound. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- For them stage-coaches will have become romances--a team of four bays as fabulous as Bucephalus or Black Bess. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- There were five horses in the rope corral, three bays, a sorrel, and a buckskin. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The north pole will rush to the south, and the headlands of Europe be locked into the bays of Australia ere I forget. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The title Englanderinn seems to be en bays de gonnoisance, said Max, who knew the French language, to Fritz, his comrade. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- A great many farmers are building over bays in their barns for silos. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- They gathered around him like the sheep around the watch-dog, when they hear the baying of the wolf. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- She was awakened by loud shouts and outcries, the tramp of horses' feet, and the baying of dogs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Well, the dogs bayed and howled, and we rode and scampered, and finally we started him. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Editor: Segre