embayed

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of embay

comparative more embayed · superlative most embayed

1. Enclosed in (or as though in) a bay; harboured.

   Yet ere thou be where thou would'st be embay'd, / Thou shalt upon another Forest set [...].

   1661, John Donne, Elegie XVIII

2. Of water: formed into a bay or bays.

   A veiled sunlight lit up faintly the grey sheet of water where the river was embayed.

   1916, James Joyce, chapter IV, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC