Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To put, shelter, or detain in or as if in a bay.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To inclose in a bay or inlet; inclose between capes or promontories; landlock: as, the ship or fleet is embayed.
- To bathe; steep.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To bathe; to soothe or lull as by bathing.
- transitive verb To shut in, or shelter, as in a bay.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
shut in ,enclose ,shelter ortrap , such as ships in abay . - verb transitive, obsolete To
bathe ; tosteep .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Most online auction sites such as embay have a feature that lets successful bidders leave public feedback about the auction seller they did business with.
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How perfect is the verdure -- how rich the blossoming shrubberies that screen with verdurous walls from the possibility of intrusion, whilst by their own wandering line of distribution they shape and umbrageously embay, what one might call lawny saloons and vestibules -- sylvan galleries and closets.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various
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The pent-up emotion had swollen and swollen inside the young thing till the dam could no longer embay it.
Desperate Remedies Thomas Hardy 1884
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Their lines of curvature, and the kind of enclosures which they fence in; so again reproducing the construction of the Coral Reefs, which thus embay spaces of shallow water.
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Whilst others did themselves embay in liquid joys.
Among My Books Second Series James Russell Lowell 1855
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Nor thofe, by Vaga's ftream, from ruins rais'd Of ancient Ariconium; nor lefs pleas'd With Salop's various fcenes; and that foft trad Of Cambria, deep-embay'd Dimetian land.
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
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... in her streaming blood he [_the infant_] did embay his little hands.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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