Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Bay (-s)
bay (-s), n.
2 [Fr. < late L. baia.] (webplay: sea, smaller). Gulf; harbor; sound; wide marine opening; indentation of the sea into the land; place for launching ships; [fig.] afterlife; passage between life, death, and the next life; distance that separates mortality from eternity.
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