Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
bay . - noun See
baize .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete See
baize .
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- noun Plural form of
bay . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
bay . - noun obsolete
Baize .
Etymologies
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Examples
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This floating luxury home will sleep 6 and is described by the company as “ideal for living in bays, atolls, and maritime parks.”
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Only in few bays is there enough of a water height differential to make energy generation efficient or possible.
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Only in few bays is there enough of a water height differential to make energy generation efficient or possible.
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Navigation in the bays is not dependent on the condition of ice in Hudson Strait.
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Many of the shallow depressions or sinks, often called bays, dome swamps, or gum ponds, contain ponds or small lakes surrounded by cypress trees and other hydrophytic vegetation.
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The town may be said chiefly to subsist by the trade of making bays, which is known over most of the trading parts of Europe by the name of Colchester Bays, though indeed all the towns round carry on the same trade — namely, Kelvedon, Witham, Coggeshall,
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The town may be said chiefly to subsist by the trade of making bays, which is known over most of the trading parts of Europe by the name of Colchester Bays, though indeed all the towns round carry on the same trade — namely, Kelvedon, Witham, Coggeshall,
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In New York and New Jersey such waters are called bays, and on the coast of Carolina they are sounds.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 Various
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The fruit of laurel trees are called bays, and are brown or red without, and white within and unctuous.
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902
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It will be seen that their arrangement is most irregular -- in fact, they can hardly be called bays at all.
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