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Definition of Embaying
1. embay [v] - See also: embay
Lexicographical Neighbors of Embaying
Literary usage of Embaying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Puritan Maid: A Poem by George Taylor Lee (1904)
"... in snow or flower and tree, Fringe thee with beauty to thy inland sea; Where,
best of all, on thy embaying shores Are stately homes, made sacred by rich ..."
2. Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal (1857)
"... or one from E. by N. (which is the direct embaying wind), without the vessel
be of light draft, and the state of the tide admits of her entering one of ..."
3. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1877)
"E-lited with copious notes and appendices, illustrating the history and geography
of Herodotus, from the most recent sources of information, and embaying ..."
4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1850)
"With Fifty embaying!. THE CHILDREN'S BIBLE PICTURE-BOOK. Written expressly for
Young People. Second Edition, with Eighty Engravings. ..."
5. Eldorado, Or, Adventures in the Path of Empire: Comprising a Voyage to by Bayard Taylor, Thomas Butler King (1850)
"The forms of the chains which wall in this little world are made irregular and
wonderfully picturesque by the embaying curves of the Valley—now receding far ..."
6. Eldorado: Or, Adventures in the Path of Empire, Comprising a Voyage to by Bayard Taylor (1884)
"The forms of the chains which wall in this little world are made irregular and
wonderfully picturesque by the embaying curves of the Valley—now receding far ..."
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