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Home Dictionary Name: bay or penBay, or Pen
Bay, or Pen, a pond-head made of a great height to keep in water for the supply of a mill, etc., so that the wheel of the mill may be turned by the water rushing thence, through a passage or flood-gate, 27 Eliz. C. 19. Also an arm of the sea surrounded by and except by the entrance....
pen register
pen register [perhaps from the original use of a pen to mark the dots or dashes used in counting the numbers dialed] : a device that registers the numbers dialed from a telephone compare wiretap NOTE: A court order is always required for the use of a pen register in a criminal investigation, but such use has not been considered a search or interception of communication by the U.S. Supreme Court. Some states have disagreed and discern a privacy interest in such information. ...
Bayed
Having a bay or bays...
Bay leaf
See under 3d Bay...
Bay State
Massachusetts which had been called the Colony of Massachusetts Bay a nickname...
Bay window
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...
Bow pen
Bow compasses carrying a drawing pen See Bow compass...
pen and ink
A drawing executed with pen and ink...
pen friend
A person one comes to know by by frequent friendly correspondence a pen pal...
Pen
Pen (Welsh), a high mountain, Camd. Brit...
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