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▪ I. embay, v.1|ɛmˈbeɪ|
Also 6 imbay.
[f. em- + bay n.2 and n.3]
1. trans. To lay (a vessel) within a bay. Also of the action of the wind or tide: To force (a vessel) into a bay; to detain within a bay.
1600Hakluyt Voy. III. 149 Being immediately embayed in the Grand bay. 1628Digby Jrnl. 21 When wee were come with our shippes as near the shore..as wee could, for feare of being embayed. 1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. i. i. (1852) 44 He found himself embayed within a mighty head of land. 1810Edin. Rev. XVII. 150 Many small whales..are yearly embayed and killed. 1870Illust. Lond. News 29 Oct. 438 The headland before her must be weathered, unless she would be embayed and stranded.
b. transf. ? with a reference to bay n.3
1851Ruskin Stones Ven. (1874) I. xviii. 192 Some of them might miss the real doors, and be driven into the intervals, and embayed there.
2. pass. Of a town: To be enclosed within a bay.
1825Waterton Wand. S. Amer. iv. ii. 313 The town Castries is quite embayed. 1842Sterling Let. in Carlyle Life iii. iv. (1872) 199 The town..is not at all embayed, though there is some little shelter for shipping within the mole.
3. refl. Of the sea: To form a bay. rare.
1653Holcroft Procopius iii. 97 But finding..the sea to embay it self on both sides the Land.
4. To enclose (as in a bay); to shut in; to envelop, surround; also fig.
1583Stanyhurst Aeneis ii. (1880) 50 Laocoon..Is to sone embayed with wrapping girdle y coompast. 1624Capt. Smith Virginia i. 16 We found our selues imbayed with a mightie headland. 1772–84Cook Voy. (1790) V. 1860 We were, in some degree, embayed by the ice. 1792Fortn. Ramble xi. 69 Bridder Water..looks as if embayed in mountains. 1862G. P. Scrope Volcanoes 176 The waters were embayed in eddies or pools. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. II. xxii. 32 He found himself embayed in a labyrinth without end.
▪ II. † emˈbay, v.2 Obs. poet.
[f. en- prefix + bay v.5]
1. trans. To plunge (in a liquid); to bathe; hence, to drench, wet; to imbrue, steep.
1590Spenser F.Q. i. x. 27 Sad repentance used to embay His bodie in salt water. 1594? Greene Selimus Wks. (Grosart) XIV. 223 Our mouthes in honie to embay. 1600Fairfax Tasso xii. lxii, Their Swords both points and edges sharpe embay In purple bloud, where so they hit or light. 1762Churchill Ghost, His horse, Whose sides, in their own blood embay'd, E'en to the bone were open laid.
2. fig.
a. To bathe (oneself) in sleep, sunshine.
b. Of sleep: To bedew, steep, suffuse, pervade.
1590Spenser Muiopotmos 200 In the warme sunne he doth himselfe embay. 1590― F.Q. i. ix. 13 Whiles every sense the humour sweet embay'd. 1610G. Fletcher Christ's Vict. in Farr S.P. (1847) 63 And all about, embayed in soft sleep, A herd of charmed beasts aground were spread. |