An opening in a wall, especially between two columns.
An internal recess; a compartment or area surrounded on three sides.
A brown colour/color of the coat of some horses.
The distance between two supports in a vault or building with a pitched roof.
Laurus nobilis, a tree or shrub of the family Lauraceae, having dark green leaves and berries.
A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeche in Mexico.
A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible.
A body of water (especially the sea) more-or-less three-quarters surrounded by land.
Each of the spaces, port and starboard, between decks, forward of the bitts, in sailing warships.
Bay leaf, the leaf of this or certain other species of tree or shrub, used as a herb.
A bay platform.
A bay window.
The excited howling of dogs when hunting or being attacked.
A horse of this color.
A bank or dam to keep back water.
The climactic confrontation between hunting-dogs and their prey.
A tract covered with bay trees.
Of a reddish-brown colour (especially of horses).
To howl.
To pursue noisily, like a pack of hounds.
To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay.
A small space created by building part of a wall further back from the rest.
A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.
A time of play during the school day, usually on a playground.
An inset, hole, hollow space or opening.
A remote, secret or abstruse place.
A break, pause or vacation.
A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.
A period of time when the proceedings of a parliament, committee, court of law, or other official body are temporarily suspended.
To take or declare a break.
To appoint, with a recess appointment.
To make a recess in.
To inset into something, or to recede.
To suspend (formal proceedings) temporarily.
To place in a recess.
To suspend its proceedings for a period of time.