Bay

Webster's Dictionary

(1): (a.) Reddish brown; of the color of a chestnut; - applied to the color of horses.

(2): (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.

(3): (n.) A recess or indentation shaped like a bay.

(4): (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.

(5): (n.) A compartment in a barn, for depositing hay, or grain in the stalks.

(6): (n.) A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeachy Bay.

(7): (n.) A berry, particularly of the laurel.

(8): (n.) An inlet of the sea, usually smaller than a gulf, but of the same general character.

(9): (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): (v. i.) To bark, as a dog with a deep voice does, at his game.

(11): (v. i.) Deep-toned, prolonged barking.

(12): (v. i.) A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible.

(13): (v. t.) To bathe.

(14): (n.) A bank or dam to keep back water.

(15): (v. t.) To dam, as water; - with up or back.

(16): (n.) A tract covered with bay trees.

(17): (v. t.) To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay; as, to bay the bear.

King James Dictionary

BAY, a. L.badius. Blass Bd. Red, or reddish, inclining to a chestnut color applied to the color of horses. The shades of this color are called light bay, dark bay, dappled bay, gilded bay, chestnut bay. In popular language, in England, all bay horses are called brown.

BAY, n.

1. An arm of the sea, extending into the land, not of any definite form, but smaller than a gulf, and larger than a creek. The name,however, is not used with much precision, and is often applied to large tracts of water, around which the land forms a curve, as Hudson's Bay. Nor is the name restricted to tracts of water with a narrow entrance, but used for any recess or inlet between capes of head lands, as the bay of Biscay. 2. A pond-head,or a pond formed by a dam, for the purpose of driving mill-wheels. I believe not used in U.S. 3. In a barn, a place between the floor and the end of the building, or a low inclosed place, for depositing hay.

In England, says Johnson, if a barn consists of a floor and two heads, where they lay corn, they call it a barn of two bays. These bays are from 14 to 20 feet long, and floors from 10 to 12 feet broad, and usually 20 feet long, which is the breadth of the barn.

4. In ships of war, that part on each side between decks which lies between the bitts. 5. Any kind of opening in walls.

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

1: κόλπος (Strong'S #2859 — Noun Masculine — kolpos — kol'-pos )

translated "bay" in the RV of  Acts 27:39 , is wider than a "creek" (AV). Eng., "gulf," is connected. See Bosom.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

 Joshua 15:5 18:19 Isaiah 11:15

Bay in  Zechariah 6:3,7 denotes the colour of horses, but the original Hebrew means strong, and is here used rather to describe the horses as fleet or spirited.

Holman Bible Dictionary

 Zechariah 6:3 6:7 Zechariah 6:3  Zechariah 6:7 Zechariah 6:3  Zechariah 6:7

Morrish Bible Dictionary

From 'strong, sharp,' and hence a bright colour, perhaps 'reddish brown.'  Zechariah 6:3,7 . The chariot with grisled and bay horses signified the Roman empire.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

BAY . See Colours, 3.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(לָשׁוֹן, Lashon ', Tongue; Sept. λοφία ) is spoken of the cove or estuary of the Dead Sea, at the mouth of the Jordan ( Joshua 15:5;  Joshua 18:19), and also of the southern extremity of the same sea ( Joshua 15:2), forming the boundary points of the tribe of Judah. De Sauley, however, contends (Narrative, 1, 250) that by this term are represented, respectively, the two extreme points of the peninsula jutting into the lake on the opposite shore, which he states still bears the corresponding Arabic name Lissan. But this would confine the territory of Judah to very narrow limits on the east, and the points in question are expressly stated to be portions of the Sea (and not of the land, as the analogy of our phrases "tongue of land," etc., would lead us to suppose), one of them being in fact located at the very entrance of the Jordan. Moreover, the same term (in the original) is used with reference to the forked mouths of the Nile ("the tongue of the Egyptian Sea,"  Isaiah 11:15) as affording an impediment to travelers from the East. (See Dead Sea). — E