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English
Etymology 1
From em- + bay (“bathe”).
Verb
embay (third-person singular simple present embays, present participle embaying, simple past and past participle embayed)
- (transitive, obsolete) To bathe; to steep.
1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Twelfth Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. , London: Ar Hatfield, for I Iaggard and M Lownes, →OCLC, stanza 62, page 225:Their ſwords both points and edges ſharpe embay / In purple bloud, where ſo they hit or light […]
Etymology 2
From em- + bay.
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Verb
embay (third-person singular simple present embays, present participle embaying, simple past and past participle embayed)
- (transitive) To shut in, enclose, shelter or trap, such as ships in a bay.
1876, Herman Melville, “Canto XVII”, in Walter E. Bezanson, editor, Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land , New York, N.Y.: Hendricks House, published 1960, →OCLC, part I (Jerusalem), page 56, lines 176–183:Hebrew the profile, every line; / But as in haven fringed with palm, / Which Indian reefs embay from harm, / Belulled as in the vase the wine— / Red budded corals in remove, / Peep coy through quietudes above; […]
1912, Thomas Hardy, “An Imaginative Woman”, in Life’s Little Ironies , New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC, page 7:Herself the only daughter of a struggling man of letters, she had during the last year or two taken to writing poems, in an endeavour to find a congenial channel in which to let flow her painfully embayed emotions, whose former limpidity and sparkle seemed departing in the stagnation caused by the routine of a practical household and the gloom of bearing children to a commonplace father.
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