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In the United States navy, a sick-bay nurse; -- now officially designated as hospital apprentice.

made to receive it, and which thus serves to engage or disengage parts of the machinery. Bayonet clutch. See Clutch. -- Bayonet joint, a form of coupling similar to that by which a bayonet is fixed on the barrel of a musket. Knight.

rceptible movement except from tide and wind. [Southern U. S.] A dark slender thread of a bayou moves loiteringly northeastward into a swamp of huge cypresses. G. W. Cable.

Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous.

See Baize. [Obs.]

Barking; baying of dogs upon their prey. See Bay. [Obs.]

A harbor on the east coast of Australia, and an English convict settlement there; -- so called from the number of new plants found on its shore at its discovery by Cook in 1770.

The space between two principals or girders.

To clear from a bay. Sherburne.

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.

See Embay.

the oleander. [Obs.]

r on a girder; also, the space between a wall and the nearest girder of a floor. Cf. Case-bay.

of anything that surrounds or incloses; to let loose; to open. [Obs.] I ought . . . to unbay the current of my passion. Norris.

erly including practically all of Canada east of the 115th meridian and south of Hudson's Bay and the part of the United States east of the Mississippi and north of Tennessee and Virginia, with the exception of the territory occupied by the northern Iroquoian tribes. There are nearly 100,000 Indians of the Algonquian t…

An Egyptian dancing girl; an Alma. The Almehs lift their arms in dance. Bayard Taylor.

-- Angle bar. (a) (Carp.) An upright bar at the angle where two faces of a polygonal or bay window meet. Knight. (b) (Mach.) Same as Angle iron. -- Angle bead (Arch.), a bead worked on or fixed to the angle of any architectural work, esp. for protecting an angle of a wall. -- Angle brace, Angle tie (Carp.), a brace…

A bead of rough carnelian. Arangoes were formerly imported from Bombay for use in the African slave trade. McCulloch.

A manufactory of arms, as rifles, muskets, pistols, bayonets, swords. [U.S.]