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embayed, ppl. a.|ɛmˈbeɪd|
[f. embay v.1]
1. Enclosed in, or as in, a bay. Also, of a shore: Formed into bays, hollowed out by the sea.
1835Mudie Brit. Birds (1841) I. 125 A shore, embayed and torn by the sea. 1839Murchison Silur. Syst. i. xxxvii. 516 The embayed flats..are good examples of the fertile soil. 1851Ruskin Stones Ven. (1874) I. i. 17 Embayed fragments of the Roman wreck. 1870Yeats Nat. Hist. Comm. 15 The embayed waters of Mexico. 1882Nature XXVI. 151 Great West Bay..bears..the ugly name of ‘Dead Man's Bay’ from an embayed vessel caught in a South-west gale seldom escaping shipwreck.
2. Forming a bay or recess. See bay n.3
1824–9Landor Imag. Conv. (1846) II. 241 The embayed window. |