Definition of "embay"

embay¹

verb
third-person singular simple present embays, present participle embaying, simple past and past participle embayed
1. (transitive, obsolete) To bathe; to steep.
  Quotations
  Sweete Loue, that doth his golding wings embay / In bleſſed Nectar, and pure Pleaſures well […].
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, page 560
  Their ſwords both points and edges ſharpe embay / In purple bloud, where ſo they hit or light […]
  1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Twelfth Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, stanza 62, page 225

embay²

verb
third-person singular simple present embays, present participle embaying, simple past and past participle embayed
1. (transitive) To shut in, enclose, shelter or trap, such as ships in a bay.
  Quotations
  Hebrew the profile, every line; / But as in haven fringed with palm, / Which Indian reefs embay from harm, / Belulled as in the vase the wine— / Red budded corals in remove, / Peep coy through quietudes above; […]
  1876, Herman Melville, “Canto XVII”, in Walter E. Bezanson, editor, Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land […], New York, N.Y.: Hendricks House, published 1960, part I (Jerusalem), page 56, lines 176–183
  Herself the only daughter of a struggling man of letters, she had during the last year or two taken to writing poems, in an endeavour to find a congenial channel in which to let flow her painfully embayed emotions, whose former limpidity and sparkle seemed departing in the stagnation caused by the routine of a practical household and the gloom of bearing children to a commonplace father.
  1912, Thomas Hardy, “An Imaginative Woman”, in Life’s Little Ironies […], New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, page 7