bay
noun
- body of water created by an indentation in shoreline
- easily accessible opening in a building wall
- slot in a computer housing for an additional device
verb
- howl, particularly by a dog
adjective
- (especially of horses) reddish-brown colour
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪ̯/ / /ˈbeː/ / /ˈbæ̝ɪ̯/
adj
Etymology: From Middle English bay, bai, from Old French bai, from Latin badius (“reddish brown, chestnut”).
- Of a reddish-brown colour with a black mane and tail.
“Mr. Free also owned restaurants and bred horses. His bay gelding, Packett's Landing, won almost $800,000 in his five-year career in the late 1980's and early 1990's.”
name
Etymology: From bay.
- A surname
noun
Etymology: From Middle English bay, bai, from Old French bai, from Latin badius (“reddish brown, chestnut”).
- A brown colour/color of the coat of some horses.
- A horse of this color.
“[…] browns are the soberest, bays are the worst tempered, and chestnuts are the most foolish.”
verb
Etymology: From Old French bay, combined with aphetized form of abay; verbal form of baier, abaier.
- To howl.
“The hounds at nearer distance hoarsely bay'd.”
“For at the last shall the thunder, fleeing to escape from the doom of the gods, roar horribly among the Worlds; and Time, the hound of the gods, shall bay hungrily at his masters because he is lean with age.”
- To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay.
“to bay the bear”
“Spit, and throw stones, cast mire upon me, set / The dogs o'th' street to bay me”
- To pursue noisily, like a pack of hounds.