bay

n.

1. Architecture. A part of a building marked off by vertical elements, such as columns or pilasters: an arcade divided into ten bays.
2. Architecture.
   1. A bay window.
   2. An opening or recess in a wall.
3. A section or compartment, as in a service station, barn, or aircraft, that is set off for a specific purpose: a cargo bay; an engine bay.
4. A sickbay.
5. Computer Science. A drive bay.

[Middle English, from Old French baee, an opening, from baer, to gape, from Vulgar Latin *badāre.]

bay³ (bā)
adj.
Reddish-brown: a bay colt.

n.

1. A reddish brown.
2. A reddish-brown animal, especially a horse having a black mane and tail.

[Middle English, from Old French bai, from Latin badius.]

bay⁴ (bā)
n.

1. A deep, prolonged bark, such as the sound made by hounds.
2. The position of one cornered by pursuers and forced to turn and fight at close quarters: The hunters brought their quarry to bay.
3. The position of having been checked or held at a distance: "He has seen the nuclear threat held at bay for 40 years" (Earl W. Foell).

v., bayed, bay·ing, bays.

v.intr.
To utter a deep, prolonged bark.

v.tr.

1. To pursue or challenge with barking: "I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon" (Shakespeare).
2. To express by barking or howling: a mob baying its fury.
3. To bring to bay: "too big for the dogs which tried to bay it" (William Faulkner).

[Middle English, from abai, cornering a hunted animal, from Old French, from abaiier, to bark, perhaps from Vulgar Latin *abbaiāre : Latin ad-, ad- + Vulgar Latin *badāre, to gape, yawn. V., from Middle English baien, to bark, from abaien, from Old French abaiier.]

bay⁵ (bā)
n.

1. See laurel (sense 1).
2. Any of certain other trees or shrubs with aromatic foliage, such as the California laurel.
3. A crown or wreath made especially of the leaves and branches of the laurel and given as a sign of honor or victory.
4. Honor; renown. Often used in the plural.

[Middle English, from Old French baie, berry, from Latin bāca.]

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1. Within a structure, a regularly repeated spatial element defined by beams or ribs and their supports.
2. A protruded structure with a

bay of an arcade

bay window.
3. The free or light space between sash bars.
4. In landscape architecture, a recess or alcove formed by plants in a design.
5. In plastering, the distance between screeds employed for working the floating of plaster.

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[Ge]

Structural division in the length of a building or roof. The unit within a building between a pair of piers or buttresses; the division of a roof marked by its main trusses.

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