Crossword clues for embay
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Embay \Em*bay"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embayed; p. pr. & vb. n. Embaying.] [Pref. em- + 1st bay.] To shut in, or shelter, as in a bay.
If that the Turkish fleet
Be not ensheltered and embayed, they are drowned.
--Shak.
Embay \Em*bay"\, v. t. [Pref. em- + bay to bathe.]
To bathe; to soothe or lull as by bathing. [Obs.]
--Spenser.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 vb. (label en transitive obsolete) To bathe; to steep. Etymology 2
alt. (context transitive English) To shut in, enclose, shelter or trap, such as ships in a bay. vb. (context transitive English) To shut in, enclose, shelter or trap, such as ships in a bay.
Usage examples of "embay".
Owing to the density of the crowd of reposing whales, more immediately surrounding the embayed axis of the herd, no possible chance of escape was at present afforded us.
A CALIFORNIA ROMANCE by Bret Harte CHAPTER I Just where the track of the Los Gatos road streams on and upward like the sinuous trail of a fiery rocket until it is extinguished in the blue shadows of the Coast Range, there is an embayed terrace near the summit, hedged by dwarf firs.
Ferrol here at hand, Embayed but by a temporary wind, Are all we now await.
Court, one of the highest canyons of the Sierras, was in reality a plateau of table-land, embayed like a green lake in a semi-circular sweep of granite, that, lifting itself three thousand feet higher, became a foundation for the eternal snows.
Mowett, and explained the nature of leeway, the loss of windward distance in wearing, the impossibility of tacking in a very great wind, the inevitability of leeward drift in the case of being embayed with a full gale blowing dead on short, and the impervious horror of this situation.
Owing to the density of the crowd of reposing whales, more immediately surrounding the embayed axis of the herd, no possible chance of escape was at present afforded us.
The largest and youngest caldera lay out near the center of the complex, and the older higher-floored calderas embayed its circumference like the petals of a flower design.
In an embayed recess among the surrounding yew trees, leaning her back against the pedestal of a pleasantly comic version of the Medici Venus, executed by some nameless mason of the seicento, he saw Mary pensively sitting.
There is no thought in this of saving time, for they will pull a long way in to skirt a point that is embayed.