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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.
An inlet of the sea, usually smaller than a gulf, but of the same general character.
Reddish brown; of the color of a chestnut; -- applied to the color of horses.
See under Ice.
See under 3d Bay.
A fragrant liquid, used for cosmetic and medicinal purposes.
Salt which has been obtained from sea water, by evaporation in shallow pits or basins, by the heat of the sun; the large crystalline salt of commerce.
A species of laurel. (Laurus nobilis).
A window forming a bay or recess in a room, and projecting outward from the wall, either in a rectangular, polygonal, or semicircular form; -- often corruptly called a bow window.
Woolen yarn.
The second tine of a stag's horn. See under Antler.
The East Indian weaver bird (Ploceus Philippinus).
Alt. of Bayatte
A female dancer in the East Indies.
Properly, a bay horse, but often any horse. Commonly in the phrase blind bayard, an old blind horse.
A stupid, clownish fellow.
Blind; stupid.
A large, edible, siluroid fish of the Nile, of two species (Bagrina bayad and B. docmac).
The fruit of the bay tree or Laurus nobilis.
The fruit of Myrica cerifera (wax myrtle); the shrub itself; -- called also candleberry tree.