BAWGIE. One of the names given to the great black and white gull (Larus marinus) in the Shetlands.
BAWKIE. A northern term for the auk, or razor-bill.
BAXIOS. [Sp.] Rocks or sand-banks covered with water. Scopuli.
BAY. The fore-part of a ship between decks, before the bitts (see [Sick-bay]). Foremost messing-places between decks in ships of war.
BAY. An inlet of the sea formed by the curvature of the land between two capes or headlands, often used synonymously with gulf; though, in strict accuracy, the term should be applied only to those large recesses which are wider from cape to cape than they are deep. Exposed to sea-winds, a bay is mostly insecure. A bay is distinguished from a bend, as that a vessel may not be able to fetch out on either tack, and is embayed. A bay has proportionably a wider entrance than either a gulf or haven; a creek has usually a small inlet, and is always much less than a bay.
BAY. Laurel; hence crowned with bays.
BAYAMOS. Violent blasts of wind blowing from the land, on the south side of Cuba, and especially from the Bight of Bayamo, by which some of our cruisers have been damaged. They are accompanied by vivid lightning, and generally terminate in rain.
BAY-GULF. A branch of the sea, of which the entrance is the widest part, as contradistinguished from the strait-gulf. The Bay of Biscay is a well-known example of the semicircular gulf.
BAY-ICE. Ice newly formed on the surface of the sea, and having the colour of the water; it is then in the first stage of consolidation. The epithet is, however, also applied to ice a foot or two in thickness in bays.
BAYLE. An old term for bucket.