Embay

Word EMBAY
Character 5
Hyphenation em bay
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Embay"

What do we mean by embay?

To put, shelter, or detain in or as if in a bay. transitive verb

To inclose in a bay or inlet; inclose between capes or promontories; landlock: as, the ship or fleet is embayed.

To bathe; steep.

To bathe; to soothe or lull as by bathing. transitive verb

To shut in, or shelter, as in a bay. transitive verb

To bathe; to steep. verb

To shut in, enclose, shelter or trap, such as ships in a bay. verb

To bathe; to steep.

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The word "embay" in example sentences

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Various (N/A)

The pent-up emotion had swollen and swollen inside the young thing till the dam could no longer embay it. ❋ Thomas Hardy (1884)

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. ❋ Unknown (1873)

Whilst others did themselves embay in liquid joys. ❋ James Russell Lowell (1855)

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. ❋ Unknown (1790)

... in her streaming blood he [_the infant_] did embay his little hands. ❋ Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1853)

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