bay
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Is bay a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (geography) A body of water (especially the sea) contained by a concave shoreline.Examples: "This hotel has a great view across the bay."; "'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed."Synonyms: gulf
noun (English)
1. (in the plural, now rare) The leaves of this shrub, woven into a garland used to reward a champion or victor; hence, fame, victory.Examples: "both you here with many a cursed oth, / Sweare she is yours, and stirre vp bloudie frayes, / To win a willow bough, whilest other weares the bayes."; "The patriot's honours and the poet's bays."Synonyms: laurelsarchaicin-plural
2. (US, dialect) A tract covered with bay trees.USdialectal
3. (obsolete) A berry.obsolete
noun (English)
1. (nautical) Each of the spaces, port and starboard, between decks, forward of the bitts, in sailing warships.
2. (rail transport) A bay platform.Examples: "There is a short bay at the west end of each platform, but neither is used for passenger trains."
noun (English)
1. (by extension) The climactic confrontation between hunting-dogs and their prey.broadly
2. (figuratively) A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible.Examples: "Embolden'd by despair, he stood at bay."; "The most terrible evils are just kept at bay by incessant efforts."figuratively
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To howl.Examples: "The hounds at nearer distance hoarsely bay'd."; "For at the last shall the thunder, fleeing to escape from the doom of the gods, roar horribly among the Worlds; and Time, the hound of the gods, shall bay hungrily at his masters because he is lean with age."; "The scene was rocking, all were digging the sounds Igor on chains, backed by his baying hounds The coffin-bangers were about to arrive With their vocal group, The Crypt-Kicker Five."intransitive
2. (transitive) To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay.Examples: "to bay the bear"; "Spit, and throw stones, cast mire upon me, set / The dogs o'th' street to bay me"transitive
3. (transitive) To pursue noisily, like a pack of hounds.transitive
adj (English)
1. (especially of horses) Of a reddish-brown colour.Examples: "Mr. Free also owned restaurants and bred horses. His bay gelding, Packett's Landing, won almost $800,000 in his five-year career in the late 1980's and early 1990's."especially
Definition source: Wiktionary