Bays

Word BAYS
Character 4
Hyphenation bays
Pronunciations /beɪz/

Definitions and meanings of "Bays"

What do we mean by bays?

A berry.

Laurus nobilis, a tree or shrub of the family Lauraceae, having dark green leaves and berries.

Bay leaf, the leaf of this or certain other species of tree or shrub, used as a herb.

(in the plural) The leaves of this shrub, woven into a garland used to reward a champion or victor; hence, fame, victory.

A tract covered with bay trees.

A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeche in Mexico.

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The word "bays" in example sentences

This floating luxury home will sleep 6 and is described by the company as “ideal for living in bays, atolls, and maritime parks.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

Only in few bays is there enough of a water height differential to make energy generation efficient or possible. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Navigation in the bays is not dependent on the condition of ice in Hudson Strait. ❋ Unknown (1923)

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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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, ❋ Unknown (2003)

In New York and New Jersey such waters are called bays, and on the coast of Carolina they are sounds. ❋ Various (N/A)

The fruit of laurel trees are called bays, and are brown or red without, and white within and unctuous. ❋ Robert Steele (1902)

It will be seen that their arrangement is most irregular -- in fact, they can hardly be called bays at all. ❋ Unknown (1896)

In one of the bays was a figure of a goat in black marble, with shining agate eyes. ❋ Anatole France (1884)

"Uncle Grey, I think the bays are the handsomest." ❋ Unknown (1872)

Against the eastern pillar of one of the bays was a little altar, and the decorations included Saint Julian, the patron of travellers, with his saltire doubly crossed, and his stag beside him. ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)

Against the eastern pillar of one of the bays was a little altar, and the decorations included St. Julian, the patron of travellers, with his saltire doubly crossed, and his stag beside him. ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)

The bay was calm and glassy, and the sun to the west, sweeping along a water horizon, showed pretty plainly that Pond's Bay, like a good many more miscalled bays of this region, was nothing more than the bell-shaped mouth to some long fiord or strait. ❋ Sherard Osborn (1848)

The heaviest spacecraft launched from the bays was the Chandra X-ray telescope, weighing in at just under 23 tonnes. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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, ❋ Daniel Defoe (1696)

The most frequent complaint from skippers fishing around diving gulls in the bays is the discourtesy of other boats running up to the working birds with outboard engines running. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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