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  • English Word Bay Definition To dam, as water; -- with up or back.
  • English Word Bay ice Definition See under Ice.
  • English Word Bay leaf Definition See under 3d Bay.
  • English Word Bay rum Definition A fragrant liquid, used for cosmetic and medicinal purposes.
  • English Word Bay salt Definition Salt which has been obtained from sea water, by evaporation in shallow pits or basins, by the heat of the sun; the large crystalline salt of commerce.
  • English Word Bay tree Definition A species of laurel. (Laurus nobilis).
  • English Word Bay window Definition A window forming a bay or recess in a room, and projecting outward from the wall, either in a rectangular, polygonal, or semicircular form; -- often corruptly called a bow window.
  • English Word Bay yarn Definition Woolen yarn.
  • English Word Bay-antler Definition The second tine of a stag's horn. See under Antler.
  • English Word Baya Definition The East Indian weaver bird (Ploceus Philippinus).
  • English Word Bayad Definition Alt. of Bayatte
  • English Word Bayadere Definition A female dancer in the East Indies.
  • English Word Bayard Definition Properly, a bay horse, but often any horse. Commonly in the phrase blind bayard, an old blind horse.
  • English Word Bayard Definition A stupid, clownish fellow.
  • English Word Bayardly Definition Blind; stupid.
  • English Word Bayatte Definition A large, edible, siluroid fish of the Nile, of two species (Bagrina bayad and B. docmac).
  • English Word Bayberry Definition The fruit of the bay tree or Laurus nobilis.
  • English Word Bayberry Definition A tree of the West Indies related to the myrtle (Pimenta acris).
  • English Word Bayberry Definition The fruit of Myrica cerifera (wax myrtle); the shrub itself; -- called also candleberry tree.
  • English Word Baybolt Definition A bolt with a barbed shank.
  • English Word Bayed Definition of Bay
  • English Word Bayed Definition Having a bay or bays.
  • English Word Baying Definition of Bay
  • English Word Bayonet Definition A pointed instrument of the dagger kind fitted on the muzzle of a musket or rifle, so as to give the soldier increased means of offense and defense.
  • English Word Bayonet Definition A pin which plays in and out of holes made to receive it, and which thus serves to engage or disengage parts of the machinery.
  • English Word Bayonet Definition To stab with a bayonet.
  • English Word Bayonet Definition To compel or drive by the bayonet.
  • English Word Bayoneted Definition of Bayonet
  • English Word Bayoneting Definition of Bayonet
  • English Word Bayou Definition An inlet from the Gulf of Mexico, from a lake, or from a large river, sometimes sluggish, sometimes without perceptible movement except from tide and wind.