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A berry.

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Laurus nobilis, a tree or shrub of the family Lauraceae, having dark green leaves and berries.

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Bay leaf, the leaf of this or certain other species of tree or shrub, used as a herb.

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(in the plural) The leaves of this shrub, woven into a garland used to reward a champion or victor; hence, fame, victory.

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A tract covered with bay trees.

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A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeche in Mexico.

They kept their emotions at bay for the most part.

Staring out the bay window at the old house, she abandoned her coffee cup on the window sill.

A large bay window sported a roomy window seat.

The big bay was breathing hard when they stopped to rest.

Bordeaux urged the bay after them.

He swung the bay around and left her to the townspeople.

It has the bay window, great natural light.

Better yet, keep an eye out in the bay for another body.

The bay wandered up and nibbled at the hay.

She watched from the bay window as he left a trail of dust to the main road.

She wandered into the living room and stared out the bay window.

On the march from Vyazma to Tsarevo-Zaymishche he rode his light bay bobtailed ambler accompanied by his Guards, his bodyguard, his pages, and aides-de-camp.

A lone rider appeared on a bay.

Of the islands in the Bay of Bengal the Nicobar and Andaman groups are alone worth notice.

Tampa Bay has permanent sea-coast defences.

The Polynemidae, which range from the Atlantic through the Indian Ocean to the Pacific, supply animals from which isinglass is prepared; one of them, the mango-fish, esteemed a great delicacy, inhabits the seas from the Bay of Bengal to Siam.

In order to reach water sufficiently deep for the steamers, the railway tracks have been carried by earth filling about seven-eighths of a mile into the bay.

Tampa Bay was the landing-place of the expeditions of the Spanish explorers, Pamfilo de Narvaez and Hernando de Soto.

Farewell, King and Fynn made independent settlements at various parts of the bay, where a few Amatuli still lingered.

The emphasis is on local foods in a cozy atmosphere, including a fireplace, hardwood floors, and bay windows.

In the Bay of Bengal the strength of the southwest monsoon is rather from the south and south-east, being succeeded by north-east winds after October, which give place to northerly and north-westerly winds as the year advances.

Many visitors are attracted by the fishing (especially for tarpon) and shooting in the vicinity, water-fowl being plentiful in the Bay, and deer, quail and wild turkeys being found in the vicinity inland.

The Lenkoran district, sometimes called Talysh, on the western side of the Kizil-Agach bay, is blessed with a rich vegetation, a fertile soil, and a moist climate.

He led her out of the open bay into an office area.

It is pleasantly situated on and about Sorrento Point, the southern horn of Dublin Bay.

It was left untouched by Mahommedanism, and for an unprecedentedly long period kept Europeans at bay without wasting its strength in hostilities.

In1905-1908the channel of Hillsborough Bay was made 20 ft.

Captain Taylor, however, found their nests as well on low bushes of the same tree in the Bay of Fonseca (Ibis, 1859, pp. 150-152).

For the present the connivance of the senate at his coup d'etat of Nivose led to the deportation of one hundred and thirty Jacobins; some were interned in the islands of the Bay of Biscay, while fifty were sent to the tropical colonies of France, whence few of them ever returned.

Forster published a Catalogue of the Animals of North America in London in 1771, and the following year described in the Philosophical Transactions a few birds from Hudson Bay.

The Sassanid king, Bahram V., fought several campaigns with them and succeeded in keeping them at bay, but they defeated and killed Peroz (Firuz), A.D.

From the earliest times, owing to its great strength, speed, and ferocity when at bay, the boar has been one of the favourite beasts of the chase.

The columned, round-headed windows are set in deeply between the pillars which carry the massive entablature, and this again is surmounted by a balustrade with obelisks at each angle and figures marking the line of each bay.

She sailed in June 1853, and passing up Smith Sound at the head of Baffin Bay advanced into the enclosed sea which now bears the name of Kane Basin, thus establishing the Polar route of many future Arctic expeditions.

The city lies on Massachusetts bay, on what was once a pear-shaped peninsula attached to the mainland by a narrow, marshy neck, often swept by the spray and water.

The beautiful Public Garden and the finest residential quarter of the city - the Back Bay, so called from that inner harbour from whose waters it was reclaimed (1856-1886) - stand on what was once the narrowest, but to-day is the widest and fairest portion of the original site.

The finest residence streets are in the Back Bay, which is laid out, in sharp contrast with the older quarters, in a regular, rectangular arrangement.

Commonwealth Avenue, one of the Back Bay streets running from the foot of the Public Garden, is one of the finest residence streets of the country.

The improvement of the Back Bay and of the South Boston flats was in considerable measure forced upon the city by the commonwealth.

There were various attempts to settle about its borders in the following years before John Endecott in 1628 landed at Salem as governor of the colony of Massachusetts bay, within which Boston was included.

At that time a " bookish recluse," William Blaxton (Blackstone), one of the several " old planters " scattered about the bay, had for several years been living on Boston peninsula.

In 1855 a number of For several years it was uncertain whether Cambridge, Charlestown or Boston should be the capital of the colony, but in 1632 the General Court agreed " by general consent, that Boston is the fittest place for public meetings of any place in the Bay."

It was one of the misfortunes of Palestine that it served as a Botany Bay, to which the criminals of the West were transported for penance.

Blanckenhorn the boundary between the two regions runs from the Bay of Jebele along the Afrin River to Aintab, and thence to the Euphrates above Birejik.

Near the site of Gisborne Captain Cook landed in 1769, and gave Poverty Bay its name from his inability to obtain supplies owing to the hostility of the natives.

Young Nick's Head, the southern horn of the bay, was named from Nicholas Young, his ship's boy, who first observed it.

The Florida Keys, a chain of islands extending in a general south-westerly direction from Biscayne Bay, are included in the state boundaries, and the city of Key West, on an island of the same name, is the seat of justice of Monroe county.

In the summer of 1559 another attempt at colonization was made by Tristan de Luna, who sailed from Vera Cruz, landed at Pensacola Bay, and explored a part of Florida and (possibly) Southern Alabama.

On the same day that Ribaut landed, a Spanish expedition arrived in the bay of St Augustine.

It is finely situated on the western shore of Mount's Bay, opposite St Michael's Mount, being the westernmost port in England.