Definitions for Bays

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Bays bay

Spelling: [bey]

IPA: /beɪ/

Bays is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 24 anagrams from letters in Bays (absy).

Definitions for Bays

noun

1. a body of water forming an indentation of the shoreline, larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf.
2. South Atlantic States. an arm of a swamp.
3. a recess of land, partly surrounded by hills.
4. an arm of a prairie or swamp, extending into woods and partly surrounded by them.
5. Architecture. any of a number of similar major vertical divisions of a large interior, wall, etc.: a division of a window between a mullion and an adjoining mullion or jamb. bay window (def 1).
6. Aeronautics. any portion of an airplane set off by two successive bulkheads or other bracing members. a compartment in an aircraft:
7. a compartment, as in a barn for storing hay.
8. Also called drive bay. an open compartment in the console housing a computer's CPU in which a disk drive, tape drive, etc., may be installed.
9. Nautical. the deck space between the anchor windlass and the stem of a vessel. sick bay.
10. a deep, prolonged howl, as of a hound on the scent.
11. the position or stand of an animal or fugitive that is forced to turn and resist pursuers because it is no longer possible to flee (usually preceded by at or to):
12. the situation of a person or thing that is forced actively to oppose or to succumb to some adverse condition (usually preceded by at or to).
13. the situation of being actively opposed by an animal, person, etc., so as to be powerless to act fully (often preceded by at).
14. laurel (def 1).
15. Also called bayberry, bay rum tree. a tropical American shrub, Pimenta racemosa, having aromatic leaves that are used in making bay oil and bay rum.
16. any of various laurellike trees or shrubs.
17. any of several magnolias.
18. an honorary garland or crown bestowed for military victory, literary excellence, etc.
19. bays, fame; renown.
20. reddish brown.
21. a horse or other animal of reddish-brown color.

adjective

1. (of horses or other animals) having a reddish-brown body.

verb (used with object)

1. to assail with deep, prolonged howling:
2. to bring to or to hold at bay:

verb (used without object)

1. to howl, especially with a deep, prolonged sound, as a hound on the scent.

Origin of Bays

1350-1400; Middle English baye Middle French baie Medieval Latin, Late Latin bāia, perhaps by back formation from Latin Bāiae name of a spa on the Bay of Naples

Examples for Bays

The current system also seems to keep the normally dominant nationwide retailers at bay.

The passage was stormy--the bay of Biscay, in particular, giving us a touch of its qualities.

He knew something of horses, and this bay fitted into his dreams of an ideal perfectly.

As part of the MassEquality coalition, Marc Solomon, a former Senate aide, was working to get bay State legislators to vote no.

Nothing looked cool, that day, but the bay and those who were going into it.

The idea of a strong, German-built wall to keep the Russian bear at bay is appealing in its brutal simplicity.

They began around 1965 as The Chosen Few, another bay Area band that tried hard to look English.

The bay is merely an elbow, half the winds blowing in from the open sea.

Meantime a white film of fog spread down the bay from the northward.

Tonya Jone Miller, who describes herself as an “aural courtesan,” has run the bay City Blues sex-line for nine years.