Dictionary Entry
bay
bay is a 3-letter English word with 27 senses as adjective, noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Reddish brown; of the color of a chestnut; -- applied to the color of horses. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
3 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 8 · 27 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Reddish brown; of the color of a chestnut; -- applied to the color of horses.
- 2noun
An inlet of the sea, usually smaller than a gulf, but of the same general character.
- 3noun
A small body of water set off from the main body; as a compartment containing water for a wheel; the portion of a canal just outside of the gates of a lock, etc.
- 4noun
A recess or indentation shaped like a bay.
- 5noun
A principal compartment of the walls, roof, or other part of a building, or of the whole building, as marked off by the buttresses, vaulting, mullions of a window, etc.; one of the main divisions of any structure, as the part of a bridge between two piers.
- 6noun
A compartment in a barn, for depositing hay, or grain in the stalks.
- 7noun
A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeachy Bay.
- 8noun
A berry, particularly of the laurel.
- 9noun
The laurel tree (Laurus nobilis). Hence, in the plural, an honorary garland or crown bestowed as a prize for victory or excellence, anciently made or consisting of branches of the laurel.
- 10noun
A tract covered with bay trees.
- 11intransitive verb
To bark, as a dog with a deep voice does, at his game.
- 12transitive verb
To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay; as, to bay the bear.
- 13intransitive verb
Deep-toned, prolonged barking.
- 14intransitive verb
A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible.
- 15transitive verb
To bathe.
- 16noun
A bank or dam to keep back water.
- 17transitive verb
To dam, as water; -- with up or back.
- 18noun
a horse of a moderate reddish-brown color
- 19noun
a small recess opening off a larger room
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- 20noun
a compartment in an aircraft used for some specific purpose
"he opened the bomb bay"
- 21noun
a compartment on a ship between decks; often used as a hospital
"they put him in the sick bay"
- 22noun
the sound of a hound on the scent
- 23noun
an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf
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- 24noun
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
- 25verb
bark with prolonged noises, of dogs
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- 26verb
utter in deep prolonged tones
- 27adjective
(used of animals especially a horse) of a moderate reddish-brown color
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