embay
English
Verb
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.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen, III.11:
Alternative forms
Verb
embay (third-person singular simple present embays, present participle embaying, simple past and past participle embayed)
References
- embay in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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