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Webster 1828 Edition


Embayed

EMBA'YED

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Inclosed in a bay, or between points of land, as a ship.

Definition 2024


embayed

embayed

English

Verb

embayed

  1. simple past tense and past participle of embay

Adjective

embayed (comparative more embayed, superlative most embayed)

  1. Enclosed in (or as though in) a bay; harboured.
    • 1661, John Donne, "Elegie XVIII":
      Yet ere thou be where thou would'st be embay'd, / Thou shalt upon another Forest set [...].
  2. Of water: formed into a bay or bays.