Bay

1. n. A tract covered with bay trees.
2. a. Reddish brown; of the color of a chestnut; — applied to the color of horses.
3. n. An inlet of the sea, usually smaller than a gulf, but of the same general character.
4. n. A small body of water set off from the main body; as a compartment containing water for a wheel; the portion of a canal just outside of the gates of a lock, etc.
5. n. A recess or indentation shaped like a bay.
6. n. A principal compartment of the walls, roof, or other part of a building, or of the whole building, as marked off by the buttresses, vaulting, mullions of a window, etc.; one of the main divisions of any structure, as the part of a bridge between two piers.
7. n. A compartment in a barn, for depositing hay, or grain in the stalks.
8. n. A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeachy Bay.
9. n. A berry, particularly of the laurel.
10. n. The laurel tree (Laurus nobilis). Hence, in the plural, an honorary garland or crown bestowed as a prize for victory or excellence, anciently made or consisting of branches of the laurel.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.