English Dictionary

bay

/beɪ/

noun

(obsolete) A berry. / Laurus nobilis, a tree or shrub of the family Lauraceae, having dark green leaves and berries.

The children collected bay from the bushes.

意味（1）

(obsolete) A berry.

意味（2）

Laurus nobilis, a tree or shrub of the family Lauraceae, having dark green leaves and berries.

意味（3）

Bay leaf, the leaf of this or certain other species of tree or shrub, used as a herb.

意味（4）

(in the plural, now rare) The leaves of this shrub, woven into a garland used to reward a champion or victor; hence, fame, victory.

both you here with many a cursed oth, / Sweare she is yours, and stirre vp bloudie frayes, / To win a willow bough, whilest other weares the bayes.

意味（5）

(US, dialect) A tract covered with bay trees.

意味（6）

A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeche in Mexico.