Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary -- Volume AB

Bays, Bayze (?), n. See Baize. [Obs.]

Bay" salt` (?). Salt which has been obtained from sea water, by evaporation in shallow pits or basins, by the heat of the sun; the large crystalline salt of commerce. Bacon. Ure.

Bay State. Massachusetts, which had been called the Colony of Massachusetts Bay; -- a nickname.

Bay" tree`. A species of laurel. (Laurus nobilis).

Bay" win"dow (?). (Arch.) A window forming a bay or recess in a room, and projecting outward from the wall, either in a rectangular, polygonal, or semicircular form; -- often corruptly called a bow window.

Bay" yarn` (?). Woolen yarn. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

Ba·zaar" Ba·zar" (b·zär"), n. [Per. bāzar market.]

1. In the East, an exchange, marketplace, or assemblage of shops where goods are exposed for sale.

2. A spacious hall or suite of rooms for the sale of goods, as at a fair.

3. A fair for the sale of fancy wares, toys, etc., commonly for a charitable object. Macaulay.

Bdel"lium (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. βδελλιον; cf. Heb. b'dolakh bdellium (in sense 1).]

1. An unidentified substance mentioned in the Bible (Gen. ii. 12, and Num. xi. 7), variously taken to be a gum, a precious stone, or pearls, or perhaps a kind of amber found in Arabia.

2. A gum resin of reddish brown color, brought from India, Persia, and Africa.

Indian bdellium or false myrrh is an exudation from Balsamodendron Roxburghii. Other kinds are known as African, Sicilian, etc.

Bdel·loi"de·a (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. βδελλα leech + -oid.] (Zoöl.) The order of Annulata which includes the leeches. See Hirudinea.