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▪ I. † bayed, a.1 Obs. Also 5 bayde. [f. bay a.1 + -ed; or ad. L. badius.] Bay-coloured.
c1440Promp. Parv. 21 Bayyd, as a horse (v.r. bay), badius. 1483Cath. Angl. 17 Bayde [with no Latin equivalent]. ▪ II. † bayed, ppl. a.2 Obs. [? short for embayed.] Surrounded, enclosed.
1577Holinshed Chron. II. 11/1 The territorie baied and perclosed within the river. 1583Stanyhurst æneis iii. (Arb.) 74 A plentiful Island..roundlye bayed..With Mycone, and eke with Giarus, two famosed Islands. ▪ III. bayed, ppl. a.3|beɪd| [f. bay v.4 + -ed.] Dammed.
a1618Sylvester Lawe 694 (D.) He smot the sea with his dead-liuing rod: The sea obayed, as bay'd. 1879Jefferies Wild Life in S.C. 64 It [the brook] swells sufficiently, if bayed up properly, to drive a mill. ▪ IV. bayed, ppl. a.4|beɪd| [f. bay n.3 + -ed.] Having a bay, formed as a bay or recess.
a1848Marryat R. Reefer lxvi. 258 The bayed windows. 1851Helps Comp. Solit. vii. (1874) 130 A window, in a bayed recess. |