bay + (ba)

i. [ mouth. Bayer à la mamelle , to seeke or baye for the dugge. Holly band , Treasurie of the French Tongue. bays (bā), v. [Early mod. E. also baye , bayen , OF. bayer = It. bajare (also in comp., ME. abayen , abayer , abaier , abaier, abbayer , mod. F. aboyer = It. abbajare ), bark; of uncertain origin, perhaps imitative (cf. E. bawll , bark, L. baubari , ML. baulare , G. bailen , bark, and E. baw2 , bow - wow ), but prob. a ociated in earlier use with OF. baer , beer , bayer = It. badare , badare , gape: see bay , and cf. bays , n., in which the two notions unite. In some senses the verb is from the noun.] I. in trans. To bark, as a dog; especially, to bark with a deep prolonged sound, as hounds in the chase. The hounds at nearer distance hoarsely bayed . Dryden, Theodore and Honoria, 1. 279. bayard baize, q. v.), II. n. 11. A light woolen fabric (originally of a bay color), the manufacture of which was introduced into England in 1561 by refugees from France and the Netherlands: usually in plural bays , now, as singular, baize (which see). -2. A bay horse. The ploughman stopped to gaze Whene'er his chariot swept in view Behind the shining bays . O. W. Holmes, Agnes.