bay | Lernwerd

Forms

1.A body of water (especially the sea) contained by a concave shoreline.
- 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.
2.A bank or dam to keep back water.
3.A tree or shrub of species Laurus nobilis (family Lauraceae), having dark green leaves and berries.
4.Bay leaf, the leaf of this or certain other species of tree or shrub, used as a herb.

1.To howl.
- 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.
2.To pursue noisily, like a pack of hounds.
3.To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay.

1.Of a reddish-brown colour with a black mane and tail.
- 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.

Common· #1652

Etymology tree

Iberiander.

Late Latin baiader.?

French baieder.

English bay

From French baie, from Late Latin baia, probably ultimately from Iberian or Basque badia. Partly displaced native Old English byht, whence bight.