Noun

(en noun)

(lb) To do with a place or places.

#A road, a direction, a (physical or conceptual) path from one place to another.

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#*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

#*:The way seems difficult, and steep to scale.

#*(John Evelyn) (1620-1706)

#*:The season and ways were very improper for his majesty's forces to march so great a distance.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.}}

#*, chapter=4

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=I was on my way to the door, but all at once, through the fog in my head, I began to sight one reef that I hadn't paid any attention to afore.}}

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, title= Snakes and ladders , passage=Risk is everywhere.

#A means to enter or leave a place.

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#*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=14 citation , passage=Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house.}}

#A roughly-defined geographical area.

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A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism.

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, chapter=4, title= Lord Stranleigh Abroad , passage=“[…] That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh.

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, chapter=2, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way' she laughed, cackling like a hen, the ' way she talked to the waiters and the maid,

*{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1

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*{{quote-magazine, title=A better waterworks, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838

, page=5 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.}}

(lb) Personal interaction.

#Possibility (usually in the phrases 'any way' and 'no way').

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#Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct.

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(lb) A tradition within the modern pagan faith of Heathenry, dedication to a specific deity or craft, Way of wyrd, Way of runes, Way of Thor etc.

(lb) Speed, progress, momentum.

*1977 , (w, Richard O'Kane), Clear the Bridge: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang , Ballantine Books (2003), p.343:

*:Ten minutes into the run Tang slowed, Welch calling out her speed as she lost way .

A degree, an amount, a sense.

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*, chapter=8

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=That concertina was a wonder in its way . The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.}}

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Noun

(en noun)

The name of the letter for the w sound in Pitman shorthand.

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) A berry.

, a shrub of the family Lauraceae , having dark green leaves and berries.

The leaves of this shrub, woven into a garland used to reward a champion or victor; hence, fame, victory.

* 1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.i:

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 .

The leaf of this or certain other species of shrub, used as a herb.

* Trumbull

The patriot's honours and the poet's bays .

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

A kind of mahogany obtained from (Campeche) in Mexico.

Noun

(en noun)

(geography) A body of water (especially the sea) more or less three-quarters surrounded by land.

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, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage='Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.}}

A bank or dam to keep back water.

Noun

(en noun)

An opening in a wall, especially between two columns.

An internal recess; a compartment or area surrounded on three sides.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838

, page=13 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist) , title= Ideas coming down the track , passage=A “moving platform” scheme

The distance between two supports in a vault or building with a pitched roof.

(nautical) Each of the spaces, port and starboard, between decks, forward of the bitts, in sailing warships.

(rail transport) A bay platform.

Shortened form of bay window.

Noun

(en noun)

The excited howling of dogs when hunting or being attacked.

(by extension) The climactic confrontation between hunting-dogs and their prey.

(figuratively) A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible.

* (rfdate) (Dryden)

Embolden'd by despair, he stood at bay .

* (rfdate) I. Taylor

The most terrible evils are just kept at bay by incessant efforts.

Noun

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A brown colour/color of the coat of some horses.

A horse of this color.