embay
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Is embay a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive, obsolete) To bathe; to steep.Examples: "Sweete Loue, that doth his golding wings embay / In bleſſed Nectar, and pure Pleaſures well[…]."; "Their ſwords both points and edges ſharpe embay / In purple bloud, where ſo they hit or light[…]"obsoletetransitive
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To shut in, enclose, shelter or trap, such as ships in a bay.Examples: "Hebrew the profile, every line; / But as in haven fringed with palm, / Which Indian reefs embay from harm, / Belulled as in the vase the wine— / Red budded corals in remove, / Peep coy through quietudes above; […]"; "Herself the only daughter of a struggling man of letters, she had during the last year or two taken to writing poems, in an endeavour to find a congenial channel in which to let flow her painfully embayed emotions, whose former limpidity and sparkle seemed departing in the stagnation caused by the routine of a practical household and the gloom of bearing children to a commonplace father."transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary