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A passage or way along or through which a carriage may be driven.

A way or road dug through a hill, or sunk below the surface of the land. [U.S.]

the edge towards anything; in the direction of the edge. Glad to get in a word, as they say, edgeways. Sir W. Scott.

To frighten; to scare. [Obs.] Spenser.

Frightful. [Obs.] Harvey.

- so called by Berzelius from its forming an oil combining with chlorine. [Written also elayle.] See Ethylene.

To shut in, or shelter, as in a bay. If that the Turkish fleet Be not ensheltered and embayed, they are drowned. Shak.

A bay. [R.] The embayment which is terminated by the land of North Berwick. Sir W. Scott.

On end; erectly; in an upright position.

See Inlay.

ion of body or mind, for the performance of anything; a trial; attempt; as, to make an essay to benefit a friend. "The essay at organization." M. Arnold.

One who essays. Addison.

A writer of an essay, or of essays. B. Jonson.

To stray. [Obs.] Daniel.

Used or fit for every day; common; usual; as, an everyday suit or clothes. The mechanical drudgery of his everyday employment. Sir. J. Herchel.

The navigable part of a river, bay, etc., through which vessels enter or depart; the part of a harbor or channel ehich is kept open and unobstructed for the passage of vessels. Totten. the rough.

A second raampart, exterior to, and parallel to, the main rampart, and considerably below its level.

A fairy; an elf. "Yellow-skirted fays." Milton.

A black, greenish, or brownish mineral of the chrysolite group. It is a silicate of iron.

See Fa.