embay

EnglishEdit

From em- +‎ bay (“bathe”).

embay (third-person singular simple present embays, present participle embaying, simple past and past participle embayed)

(transitive, obsolete) To bathe; to steep.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen, III.11:
  Sweete Love, that doth his golden wings embay / In blessed Nectar and pure Pleasures well […].
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XII, lxii:
  Their swords both points and edges sharp embay / In purple blood whereso they hit or light.

From em- +‎ bay.

embay (third-person singular simple present embays, present participle embaying, simple past and past participle embayed)

(transitive) To shut in, enclose, shelter or trap, such as ships in a bay.
- 1888, Thomas Hardy, “An Imaginative Woman”, in Wessex Tales:
  Herself the only daughter of a struggling man of letters, she had during the last year or two taken to writing poems, in an endeavour to find a congenial channel in which to let flow her painfully embayed emotions, whose former limpidity and sparkle seemed departing in the stagnation caused by the routine of a practical household and the gloom of bearing children to a commonplace father.