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Home Dictionary Name: bay windowBay 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...
Window cleaning
Window cleaning. In urban districts, by s. 171 of the Public Health Act, 1875, incorporating s. 28 and other sections of the (English) Town Police Clauses Act, 1847:-Every occupier of any house or other building or other person who orders or permits any person in his service to stand on the sill of any window in order to clean paint, or perform any other operation on the outside of such window, or upon any house or other building . . . unless such window be in the sunk or basement story.Is, if the offence be in any street and to the obstruction, annoyance or danger of the residents, liable to fine up to forty shillings or to imprison-ment up to fourteen days, and any constable of the district is directed to take him into custody without warrant and forthwith convey him before a justice of the peace if the offence shall have been committed within his view.As to requirements in buildings in the Metropolis, see London Building Acts, and see LIGHT....
Window tax
Window tax, a tax on windows, levied on houses which contained more than six windows, and were worth more than 5l. per annum; established by 7 Wm. 3, c. 18. The 14 & 15 Vict. c. 36 substituted for this tax a tax on inhabited houses, which tax has been repealed. See HOUSE DUTY...
Bayed
Having a bay or bays...
drive in window
a window at a business establishment such as a bank or restaurant where patrons may transact business or order goods while staying in their automobiles as to cash a check at the drive in window of the bank...
louvered window
A window having louvers in place of glass usually over the entire surface of the window...
Bay leaf
See under 3d Bay...
Bay State
Massachusetts which had been called the Colony of Massachusetts Bay a nickname...
Bay, 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....
Sick bays
Sick bays, defined. (Geneva Conventions Act, Sch II, Art. 28)...
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