Index of English words, starting with "ba"

(1) - Bay (n.) A tract covered with bay trees.
(2) - Bay (n.) An inlet of the sea, usually smaller than a gulf, but of the same general character.
(3) - Bay (n.) 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.
(4) - Bay (n.) A recess or indentation shaped like a bay.
(5) - Bay (n.) A principal compartment of the walls, roof, or other part of a building, or of the whole building, as marked off by the buttresses, vaulting, mullions of a window, etc.; one of the main divisions of any structure, as the part of a bridge between two piers.
(6) - Bay (n.) A compartment in a barn, for depositing hay, or grain in the stalks.
(7) - Bay (n.) A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeachy Bay.
(8) - Bay (a.) Reddish brown; of the color of a chestnut; -- applied to the color of horses.
(9) - Bay (n.) The laurel tree (Laurus nobilis). Hence, in the plural, an honorary garland or crown bestowed as a prize for victory or excellence, anciently made or consisting of branches of the laurel.
(10) - Bay (v. t.) To dam, as water; -- with up or back.
(11) - Bay (v. i.) To bark, as a dog with a deep voice does, at his game.
(12) - Bay (v. t.) To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay; as, to bay the bear.
(13) - Bay (v. i.) Deep-toned, prolonged barking.
(14) - Bay (v. i.) A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible.
(15) - Bay (v. t.) To bathe.
(16) - Bay (n.) A bank or dam to keep back water.
(17) - Bay (n.) A berry, particularly of the laurel.

(1) - Bayadere (n.) A female dancer in the East Indies.

(1) - Bayard (a.) A stupid, clownish fellow.
(2) - Bayard (a.) Properly, a bay horse, but often any horse. Commonly in the phrase blind bayard, an old blind horse.

(1) - Bayberry (n.) The fruit of Myrica cerifera (wax myrtle); the shrub itself; -- called also candleberry tree.
(2) - Bayberry (n.) A tree of the West Indies related to the myrtle (Pimenta acris).
(3) - Bayberry (n.) The fruit of the bay tree or Laurus nobilis.

(1) - Bayonet (v. t.) To compel or drive by the bayonet.
(2) - Bayonet (v. t.) To stab with a bayonet.
(3) - Bayonet (n.) A pin which plays in and out of holes made to receive it, and which thus serves to engage or disengage parts of the machinery.
(4) - Bayonet (n.) A pointed instrument of the dagger kind fitted on the muzzle of a musket or rifle, so as to give the soldier increased means of offense and defense.