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Reddish brown; of the color of a chestnut; -- applied to the color of horses. Bay cat (Zoöl.), a wild cat of Africa and the East Indies (Felis aurata). -- Bay lynx (Zoöl.), the common American lynx (Felis, or Lynx, rufa).

See under Ice.

See under 3d Bay.

A fragrant liquid, used for cosmetic and medicinal purposes.

Salt which has been obtained from sea water, by evaporation in shallow pits or basins, by the heat of the sun; the large crystalline salt of commerce. Bacon. Ure.

Massachusetts, which had been called the Colony of Massachusetts Bay; -- a nickname.

A species of laurel. (Laurus nobilis).

A window forming a bay or recess in a room, and projecting outward from the wall, either in a rectangular, polygonal, or semicircular form; -- often corruptly called a bow window.

Woolen yarn. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

The second tine of a stag's horn. See under Antler.

The East Indian weaver bird (Ploceus Philippinus).

A large, edible, siluroid fish of the Nile, of two species (Bagrina bayad and B. docmac).

A female dancer in the East Indies. [Written also bajadere.]

A violent thunder squall occurring on the south coast of Cuba, esp. near Bayamo. The gusts, called bayamo winds, are modified foehn winds.

Properly, a bay horse, but often any horse. Commonly in the phrase blind bayard, an old blind horse. Blind bayard moves the mill. Philips.

Blind; stupid. [Obs.] "A formal and bayardly round of duties." Goodman.

The fruit of the bay tree or Laurus nobilis.

A bolt with a barbed shank.

Having a bay or bays. "The large bayed barn." Drayton.

idents of William the Conqueror's expedition to England, preserved in the town museum of Bayeux in Normandy. It is probably of the 11th century, and is attributed by tradition to Matilda, the Conqueror's wife.