BAY 
charafler of him is very (iriking. “ Richard Baxter (fays 
he) was a man famous for weaknefs of body and llrength 
of mind ; for having the ftrongeft fenfe of religion him- 
felf, and exciting a'fenfe of it in the tho.ughilefs and pro¬ 
fligate; for preaching more fer-mons, engaging in more 
controverfieS, and writing more books, than any other non- 
conformift of liis age. He fpoke difputed, and wrote, 
with eafe; and difcovered the.fame intrepidity when lie 
reproved Cromwell and expoftulated with Charles II. as 
when lie preached to a congregation of mechanics. His 
zeal for religion was extraordinary; but it feems never to 
have prompted him to faction, or carried him to enthufi- 
alin.” Among his mod famous works were, i. The Saints 
Everlafting R,eft. 2. Call to the Unconverted, of which 
30,000 were fold in one year; and it was tranflated not 
only into all the European languages, but into the Indian 
tongue. 3. Poor Man’s Family Book. 4. Dying Thoughts ; 
and, 5. A Paraphrafe on the New Teflament.. His prac¬ 
tical works have been printed in four volumes folio. 
Baxter (William), nephew and heir to the former, 
was an eminent fchoolmafter and critic. He was born at 
Lanlugany in Shrupfliire, in 1650; and it is remarkable, 
that at the age of eighteen, when he find went to fchool, 
he knew not one word of any language but Welfh ; but 
he fo well improved his time, that he became a perfon of 
great and extenfive knowledge. His genius led him chief¬ 
ly to the ftudy of antiquities and philology, in which he 
compofed feveral books. The fil'd he publifhed was a 
Grammar, in 1679, intitled De Analogia feu Arte Latin® 
Linguae Commentariolus. He alfo publifiied a correct 
edition of Anacreon, with notes; an edition of Horace; 
a Dictionary of the Brilifh Antiquities, in Latin : and fe¬ 
veral other books. He died May 31, 1723, after being 
above twenty years matter of Mercer’s School in London. 
BAY,/ \_baye, Dut.J An opening into the land, where 
the water is flint in on all (ides, except at the entrance. A 
pond head raifed to keep in (tore of water for driving a mill. 
Bay, /. [ abhoi, Fr.' fignifies the la(t extremity ; as, In - 
notence eft aux abbois. Boileau. ‘ Innocence is in the ut- 
moft dijlrtfs.’ It is taken from abbot, the barking of a dog 
at hand, and thence fignified the condition of a (tag when 
the hounds werealmoft upon him.] The (late of any thing 
furrounded by enemies, and obliged to face them by an 
impoffibility of efcape : 
Nor flight was left, nor hopes to force his way ; 
Embolden’d by defpair, he flood at bay-, 
Refolv’d on death, he diflipates his fears, 
And bounds aloft againft the pointed fpears. Dryden. 
Some writers, perhaps miflaking the meaning, have ufed 
bay as referred to the aflailant, for diftance beyond which 
no approach could be made : 
All, fir’d with noble emulation, drive ; 
And with a (form of darts to diftance drive 
The Trojan chief; who, held at bay, from far 
On his Vulcanian orb fuflain’d the war. Dryden. 
Bay,/ in architecture, a term ufed tofignify the mag¬ 
nitude of a building; as, if a barn conlifts of a floor and 
two heads, where they lay corn, they call it a barn of two 
bays. Thefe bays are from fourteen to twenty feet long, 
and floors from ten to twelve broad, and ufually twenty 
feet long, which is the breadth of the barn. 
Bay,/. A poetical name for an honorary crown or gar¬ 
land, bellowed as a prize for any kind of viftcry or "ex¬ 
cellence : 
Beneath his reign (hall Etifden wear the bays. Pope. 
Bay, in botany, fee Laurus. Bay (Loblolly), fee 
Gordonia. 
Bay of Islands, fo called from the great number of 
illands which line its (hores, on the coaft of New England, 
it affords good anchorage. 
Bay of Inlets, a bay on the fouth-eaft coaft of New 
Holland, between Cape Palmerfton and Cape Townfend. 
BAY Si g 
Lat. sr. 30. to 22. 30. S. Ion. 209. 3 6. (0 210. 40. W. 
Greenwich. 
To BaY, v. n. \_abboyer, Fr. ] To bark as a dog at a thief, 
or at the game which he purities : 
The hounds at nearer diftance hoarfely bay'dt 
1 .he hunter clofe purfu’d the vifionary maid; 
She rent the heav’n with loud laments, imploring aid. 
Dryden. 
[from bay, an inclofed place.] To encompafs about; to 
(hut in : 
We are at the flake, 
And bay'd about with many enemies. Shahcfpeare. 
To Bay, v. a. To follow with barking; to bark at: 
I was with Hercules and Cadmus once, 
When in the woods of Crdte they bay'd the boar 
With hounds'of Sparta. , ' Sh'dhefpeare. 
Bay-Colour,/ [In this fenfe the word bay is formed 
from the Latin baius, or badhis, and that from the Greek 
a ‘palm-branch;’fo that badius, or bay, properly 
denotes color phceniccus. Hence alfo, among the ancients, 
thole now called bay hortes, were denominated cqui pal - 
mati. ] A fort of red inclining to ehefnut, chiefly ufed in 
fpeaking of hdrfes. We have divers forts and degrees of 
bays ; as a light bay, a dapple bay, &c. All bay horfes 
are faid to have black manes; which diftinguiflies them 
forrels, which have red or white manes. 
Bay-Salt. See Salt. 
Bay-Yarn, a denomination fometimes ufed promifeu- 
oufly with woollen yarn. 
BAY'A, a fea-port town of Africa, in the diftrift of 
Soko, on the Gold Coaft. 
BAYAGA'NA, 'a town on the ifland of St. Domingo- 
B AYA'MO, or St. Salvador, a town of the ifland 
of Cuba, on a river Which forms a port, near the South 
Coaft. It gives name to a channel, (ituated between the 
main land of Cuba and the iflands called the Queen's Gar¬ 
dens. Bayamo is 280 miles eaft of the Havanna. Lat. 
16. 5. N. Jon. 59.o. W. Ferro. 
BAY'ARD,/ [front bay. ] A bav horfe: 
Blind bayard moves the mill. Philips. 
Bayard (Peter du Terrail de), efteemed by his cotem¬ 
poraries the model of foldiers and men of honour, and de¬ 
nominated The Knight without Fear and without Reproach. 
was defeenaed front an ancient and noble family in Dau- 
phine. He was with Charles VIII. in the conqueft of Na¬ 
ples; where he gave remarkable proofs of his valour, ef- 
pecially at the battle of Fornoue. He was dangeroufly 
wounded at the taking of Brefcia; at which place lie re- 
ftored to the daughter. 01 his ho(t 2000qtiftoles, which 
their mother had directed them to give him, to prevent 
the houfe from being plundered ; an action that has been 
"'•celebrated by many hiftorians. At his return to France,, 
he was made lieutenant-general of Dauphine. He fought 
by the fide of Francis I. at the battle of Marignan ; and 
that prince afterwards infifted on being knighted by his 
hand, after the manner of the ancient knights. The che¬ 
valier Bayard defended Mezieres for fix weeks, againft: 
Charles V.’s army. In 1524, at the retreat of Rebec, 
(the general Bonivet having been wounded and obliged to 
quit the field,) the conduct of the rear was committed to 
the chevalier Bayard, who, though fo much a ftranger to 
the arts of a court that lie never role to the chief ^com¬ 
mand, was always called, in times of real danger, to polls 
of the greateft difficulty and importance. He°put himfelf 
at the head of the men-at-arms; and, animating them by 
his prefence and example to fuftain the whole (hock of the 
enemy’s troops, he gained time for the reft of his coun¬ 
trymen to make good their retreat. But in this fervice lie 
received a wound which he immedialely perceived to be 
mortal; and, being unable to continue any longer on horfe- 
back, he ordered one of his attendants to place him under 
a tree with his face towards the enemy, where he calmly 
waited 
