Fromem- +bay(“bathe”).
embay (third-person singular simple presentembays,present participleembaying,simple past and past participleembayed)
- (transitive, obsolete) Tobathe; tosteep.
1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Twelfth Booke ofGodfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e.,Edward Fairfax], transl.,Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes,→OCLC, stanza 62,page225:Their ſwords both points and edges ſharpeembay / In purple bloud, where ſo they hit or light[…]
Fromem- +bay.
embay (third-person singular simple presentembays,present participleembaying,simple past and past participleembayed)
- (transitive) Toshut in,enclose,shelter ortrap, such as ships in abay.
1876,Herman Melville, “Canto XVII”, inWalter E. Bezanson, editor,Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land […], New York, N.Y.: Hendricks House, published1960,→OCLC, part I (Jerusalem),page56, lines176–183:Hebrew the profile, every line; / But as in haven fringed with palm, / Which Indian reefsembay from harm, / Belulled as in the vase the wine— / Red budded corals in remove, / Peep coy through quietudes above;[…]
1912,Thomas Hardy, “An Imaginative Woman”, inLife’s Little Ironies […], New York, N.Y., London:Harper & Brothers Publishers,→OCLC,page 7: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 painfullyembayed 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.
