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embay en · VERB · etymology 1

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Old French en-bor. Middle English en- English em- English bay English embay From em- + bay (“bathe”).

Meanings

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To bathe; to steep.
    • Their ſwords both points and edges ſharpe embay / In purple bloud, where ſo they hit or light[…] 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Twelfth Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC, stanza 62, page 225:
    • Sweete Loue, that doth his golding wings embay / In bleſſed Nectar, and pure Pleaſures well[…]. 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 560:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
embaying Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
embays Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
embayed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
embayed Tense=Past lexicographic

embay en · VERB · etymology 2

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Old French en-bor. Middle English en- English em- English bay English embay From em- + bay.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To shut in, enclose, shelter or trap, such as ships in a bay.
    • Hebrew the profile, every line; / But as in haven fringed with palm, / Which Indian reefs embay from harm, / Belulled as in the vase the wine— / Red budded corals in remove, / Peep coy through quietudes above; […] 1876, Herman Melville, “Canto XVII”, in Walter E. Bezanson, editor, Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land […], New York, N.Y.: Hendricks House, published 1960, →OCLC, part I (Jerusalem), page 56, lines 176–183:
    • 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. 1912, Thomas Hardy, “An Imaginative Woman”, in Life’s Little Ironies […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC, page 7:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
embays Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
embaying Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
imbay alternative lexicographic
embayed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
embayed Tense=Past lexicographic