bay : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a bay on the Mediterranean Sea in northern Egypt
  Abukir.
  

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• adjective satellite forced to turn and face attackers
  treed; cornered; trapped.
  
  • a stag at bay
  • she had me cornered between the porch and her car
  • like a trapped animal

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• noun a body of water between Greenland and northeastern Canada; connected with the Arctic Ocean to the north and with the Atlantic Ocean (via the Labrador Sea) to the south; icebound in winter
  

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• (Zoöl.), a wild cat of Africa and the East Indies (Felis aurata).

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• noun any of various grasses of the genus Eragrostis; specially useful for forage and for the prevention of erosion
  love grass.
  

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Bay" ice`

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1. See under Ice.

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• noun small Mediterranean evergreen tree with small blackish berries and glossy aromatic leaves used for flavoring in cooking; also used by ancient Greeks to crown victors
  Laurus nobilis; true laurel; bay laurel; bay.
  

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• noun dried leaf of the bay laurel
  

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• the leaf of the bay tree (Laurus nobilis). It has a fragrant odor and an aromatic taste.

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• noun small lynx of North America
  bobcat; Lynx rufus.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the common American lynx (Felis, or Lynx, rufa).

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• noun evergreen aromatic shrubby tree of southeastern United States having small hard berries thickly coated with white wax used for candles
  puckerbush; Myrica cerifera.
  

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• noun an arm of the Indian Ocean to the east of India
  

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• noun an arm of the Atlantic Ocean in western Europe; bordered by the west coast of France and the north coast of Spain
  

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• noun a part of the Gulf of Mexico to the west of Yucatan
  Golfo de Campeche; Gulf of Campeche.
  

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• noun a bay of the North Atlantic between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia; noted for rapid tides as great as 70 feet
  

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• noun an arm of the Tyrrhenian Sea at Naples
  

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• noun an inlet of the Kara Sea in western Siberia
  Gulf of Ob.
  

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• noun an aromatic liquid originally obtained by distilling the leaves of the bayberry tree with rum
  

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Bay" rum"

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1. A fragrant liquid, used for cosmetic and medicinal purposes. ✍ The original bay rum, from the West Indies, is prepared, it is believed, by distillation from the leaves of the bayberry (Myrcia acris). The bay rum of the Pharmacopoeia (spirit of myrcia) is prepared from oil of myrcia (bayberry), oil of orange peel, oil of pimento, alcohol, and water.

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Bay" salt`

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1. 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. Bacon. Ure.

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• noun muscle of small choice shallow-water scallops
  
• noun a small scallop inhabiting shallow waters and mud flats of the Atlantic coast of North America
  Pecten irradians.
  

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• noun a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies
  MA; Massachusetts; Old Colony.
  

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• noun a native or resident of Massachusetts
  

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• noun small Mediterranean evergreen tree with small blackish berries and glossy aromatic leaves used for flavoring in cooking; also used by ancient Greeks to crown victors
  Laurus nobilis; true laurel; bay laurel; bay.
  

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Bay" tree`

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1. A species of laurel. (Laurus nobilis).

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• noun European willow tree with shining leathery leaves; widely naturalized in the eastern United States
  Salix pentandra; laurel willow.
  

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• noun slang for a paunch
  tummy; pot; potbelly; corporation.
  
• noun a window that sticks out from the outside wall of a house
  bow window.
  

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Bay" win"dow

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1. (Arch.) 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.

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• noun (antiquity) a wreath of laurel foliage worn on the head as an emblem of victory
  laurel; laurel wreath.
  

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Bay" yarn`

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1. Woolen yarn. Prov. Eng. Wright.

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Bay"-ant`ler noun

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See Bez-Antler.

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1. (Zoöl.) The second tine of a stag's horn. See under Antler.

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• noun shrub or small tree of southern Florida to Central and South America
  Capparis flexuosa; caper tree.
  

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• noun West Indian tree; source of bay rum
  Pimenta acris; Jamaica bayberry; bayberry; wild cinnamon.
  

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• noun (statistics) the difficulty of applying Bayes' theorem is that the probabilities of the different causes are seldom known, in which case it may be postulated that they are all equal (sometimes known as postulating the equidistribution of ignorance)
  

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• noun (statistics) a theorem describing how the conditional probability of a set of possible causes for a given observed event can be computed from knowledge of the probability of each cause and the conditional probability of the outcome of each cause
  

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• noun a narrow bay formed by an inlet from the Atlantic Ocean in southeastern Florida
  

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Bot"a*ny Bay"

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1. A harbor on the east coast of Australia, and an English convict settlement there; -- so called from the number of new plants found on its shore at its discovery by Cook in 1770. Hence, any place to which desperadoes resort.

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• noun Australian tree resembling the banyan often planted for ornament; introduced into South Africa for brushwood
  rusty rig; Port Jackson fig; Ficus rubiginosa; little-leaf fig.
  

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• noun evergreen tree of southern United States having large stiff glossy leaves and huge white sweet-smelling flowers
  southern magnolia; Magnolia grandiflora; evergreen magnolia; large-flowering magnolia.
  

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• noun an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in southeastern Massachusetts
  

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• noun Pacific coast tree having aromatic foliage and small umbellate flowers followed by olivelike fruit; yields a hard tough wood
  sassafras laurel; California olive; pepperwood; Umbellularia californica; California laurel; Oregon myrtle; mountain laurel; spice tree.
  

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• noun the southern part of Massachusetts Bay
  

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Case"-bay` noun

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1. (Arch.) (a) The space between two principals or girders. (b) One of the joists framed between a pair of girders in naked flooring.

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• noun a large inlet of the North Atlantic between Virginia and Maryland; fed by Susquehanna River
  

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• noun American breed having a short thick oily coat ranging from brown to light tan
  

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• noun an inlet of the North Atlantic; fed by the Delaware River
  

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• a reservoir or canal between a mill race and a water wheel; the discharging end of a pond or mill race.

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• noun an arm of the Gulf of Mexico in Texas to the south of Houston
  

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• noun a bay of the North Atlantic on the west coast of Ireland
  

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• noun a city of eastern Wisconsin on an arm of Lake Michigan
  

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• noun an inlet of the Caribbean Sea; a United States naval station was established on the bay in 1903
  

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• noun a bay formed by an inlet of the East China Sea
  

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• noun an inland sea in northern Canada
  

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• noun of northern Canada
  Dicrostonyx hudsonius.
  

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• noun the southern extension of Hudson Bay in Canada between western Quebec and northeastern Ontario
  

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• noun an inlet of the Yellow Sea between the Liaodong Peninsula in China and western Korea
  

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• (Bot.), an elegant white-flowered evergreen shrub or small tree, of the genus Gordonia (G. Lasianthus), growing in the maritime parts of the Southern United States. Its bark is sometimes used in tanning. Also, a similar West Indian tree (Laplacea hæmatoxylon).

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• (Canals), the body of water in a lock chamber.

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• noun a naval battle in the Spanish-American War (1898); the American fleet under Admiral Dewey defeated the Spanish fleet
  

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• noun an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean off of eastern Massachusetts extending from Cape Ann on the north to Cape Cod on the south
  

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• noun one of the British colonies that formed the United States
  Massachusetts.
  

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• noun a bay on the west coast of Kyushu; in the 1950s industrial wastes caused mercury poisoning among the Japanese people who ate fish from Minamata Bay
  

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• noun a bay of the Gulf of Mexico; fed by the Mobile River
  

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• noun port and resort city in northwestern Jamaica
  

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• noun an inlet of the Pacific Ocean in western California
  

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• noun an arm of the Tasman Sea forming a bay to the east of Brisbane
  

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• noun Australian tree having pinnate leaves and orange-yellow flowers followed by large woody pods containing 3 or 4 seeds that resemble chestnuts; yields dark strong wood
  Australian chestnut.
  

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• noun pine of Australia and New Guinea; yields a valuable light even-textured wood
  hoop pine; Araucaria cunninghamii.
  

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• noun Australian tree yielding a variegated tulipwood
  Harpullia pendula.
  

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• noun a deep inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in Rhode Island
  

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• noun a bay of the North Atlantic; fed by the Hudson River
  

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• noun a bay of the western Pacific in southern Honshu
  

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• noun an inlet of the Atlantic in eastern Maine
  

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• noun a bay on the northern coast of Alaska where oil was discovered in 1968
  

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• noun small tree of southern United States having dark red heartwood
  laurel-tree; Persea borbonia.
  

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• (Bot.), a tree (Persea Caroliniensis) having the heartwood red, found in swamps in the Southern United States.

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• noun an ornamental but poisonous flowering shrub having narrow evergreen leaves and clusters of fragrant white to pink or red flowers: native to East Indies but widely cultivated in warm regions
  oleander; Nerium oleander.
  

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• (Bot.), the classic laurel (Laurus nobilis.)

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• noun a bay of the Pacific in southern California
  

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• noun a bay of the Pacific in western California
  

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• (Naut.), an apartment in a vessel, used as the ship's hospital.
• in vessels of war, that part of a deck appropriated to the use of the sick.

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• noun shrub or small tree having rather small fragrant white flowers; abundant in southeastern United States
  swamp bay; swamp laurel; Magnolia virginiana.
  

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• noun shrub or small tree having rather small fragrant white flowers; abundant in southeastern United States
  swamp bay; swamp laurel; Magnolia virginiana.
  

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• . (Bot.) (a) The laurel (laurus nobilis). (b) Swamp sassafras.

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Tail"-bay` noun

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1. (Arch.) One of the joists which rest one end on the wall and the other on a girder; also, the space between a wall and the nearest girder of a floor. Cf. Case-bay.
2. The part of a canal lock below the lower gates.

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• noun an arm of the Gulf of Mexico in west central Florida
  

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• noun English mathematician for whom Bayes' theorem is named (1702-1761)
  Bayes.
  

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• noun a port city in Ontario on Lake Superior
  

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• an overfall, or weir, in a canal.

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