English

Verb

embay ‎(third-person singular simple present embays, present participle embaying, simple past and past participle embayed)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To bathe; to steep.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen, III.11:

     Sweete Love, that doth his golden wings embay / In blessed Nectar and pure Pleasures well […].

   • 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XII, lxii:

     Their swords both points and edges sharp embay / In purple blood whereso they hit or light.

Etymology 2

From em- +‎ bay.

Alternative forms

• imbay

Verb

embay ‎(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.

References

• embay in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

• abyme
• beamy
• maybe