Bay

Medical definition of bay:

In anatomy, a recess containing fluid, noting specifically the lacrymal bay, a slight recess at the internal angle or canthus of the eye, in which are the puncta lacrimalia, or openings of the lacrymal ducts.

Usage examples for bay:

• You couldn't expect to keep her at bay forever. "Lalage's Lovers 1911, – George A. Birmingham"

• They both caught up their guns and ran as fast as they could, when, as they entered the wood, they heard the dog at bay "The Children of the New Forest, – Captain Marryat"

• I expected that he would come to bay "New National Fourth Reader, – Charles J. Barnes and J. Marshall Hawkes"