ppl. a. [f. EMBAY v.1]

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  1.  Enclosed in, or as in, a bay. Also, of a shore: Formed into bays, hollowed out by the sea.

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1835.  Mudie, Brit. Birds (1841), I. 125. A shore, embayed and torn by the sea.

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1839.  Murchison, Silur. Syst., I. xxxvii. 516, note. The embayed flats … are good examples of the fertile soil.

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1851.  Ruskin, Stones Ven. (1874), I. i. 17. Embayed fragments of the Roman wreck.

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1870.  Yeats, Nat. Hist. Comm., 15. The embayed waters of Mexico.

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1882.  Nature, XXVI. 151. Great West Bay … bears … the ugly name of ‘Dead Man’s Bay’ from an embayed vessel caught in a South-west gale seldom escaping shipwreck.

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  2.  Forming a bay or recess. See BAY sb.3

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1824–9.  Landor, Imag. Conv. (1846), II. 241. The embayed window.

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