bay

Adjective

• (used of animals especially a horse) of a moderate reddish-brown color

Noun

• a horse of a moderate reddish-brown color

• a small recess opening off a larger room

• a compartment in an aircraft used for some specific purpose
  • he opened the bomb bay
    

• a compartment on a ship between decks; often used as a hospital
  • they put him in the sick bay
    

• small Mediterranean evergreen tree with small blackish berries and glossy aromatic leaves used for flavoring in cooking; also used by ancient Greeks to crown victors

• the sound of a hound on the scent

• an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf

Verb

• bark with prolonged noises, of dogs

• utter in deep prolonged tones

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  alcove , true laurel , bay laurel , bay tree , Laurus nobilis , embayment , quest