bay sb.2 (orig. ‘abay’=O Fr. ‘abai’, mod. Fr. ‘aboi’）
1.
deep prolonged
barking
Tit. II. ii. 3
“Uncouple here and let
us make a bay.”
2.
in phrases relating
to the position of a hunted animal when it turns and
faces the hounds, also fig.
R2 II. iii. 128
“To rouse his wrongs and
chase them to the bay,”
Ven. 877
“the hounds are at a
bay,”
Tit. IV. ii. 42, Pilgr.
xi. 13 [155].
