As part of the MassEquality coalition, Marc Solomon, a former Senate aide, was working to get bay State legislators to vote no.
Tonya Jone Miller, who describes herself as an “aural courtesan,” has run the bay City Blues sex-line for nine years.
They began around 1965 as The Chosen Few, another bay Area band that tried hard to look English.
The current system also seems to keep the normally dominant nationwide retailers at bay.
The idea of a strong, German-built wall to keep the Russian bear at bay is appealing in its brutal simplicity.
Nothing looked cool, that day, but the bay and those who were going into it.
Meantime a white film of fog spread down the bay from the northward.
He knew something of horses, and this bay fitted into his dreams of an ideal perfectly.
The passage was stormy--the bay of Biscay, in particular, giving us a touch of its qualities.
The bay is merely an elbow, half the winds blowing in from the open sea.
"inlet of the sea," c.1400, from Old French baie, Late Latin baia (c.640), perhaps ultimately from Iberian bahia.
"opening in a wall," late 14c. (especially bay window, early 15c.), from Old French baee "opening, hole, gulf," noun use of fem. past participle of bayer "to gape, yawn," from Medieval Latin batare "gape," perhaps of imitative origin. It is the bay in sick-bay.
"howl of a dog," early 14c., earlier "howling chorus raised (by hounds) when in contact with the hunted animal," c.1300, from Old French bayer, from PIE root *bai- echoic of howling (cf. Greek bauzein, Latin baubari "to bark," English bow-wow; cf. also bawl). From the hunting usage comes the transferred sense of "final encounter," and thence, on the notion of putting up an effective defense, at bay.
"reddish-brown," usually of horses, mid-14c., from Anglo-French bai (13c.), Old French bai, from Latin badius "chestnut-brown" (used only of horses), from PIE *badyo- "yellow, brown" (cf. Old Irish buide "yellow"). Also elliptical for a horse of this color.
laurel shrub (Laurus nobilis, source of the bay leaf), late 14c., originally only of the berry, from Old French baie (12c.) "berry, seed," from Latin baca "berry." Extension to the shrub itself is from 1520s. The leaves or sprigs were woven as wreaths for conquerors or poets. Bayberry first recorded 1570s, after the original sense had shifted.
"to bark or howl (at)," late 14c., from bay (n.3). Related: Bayed; baying.
