Manila Bay - Law Dictionary Search Results
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The name of a naval battle in the Spanish American War 1898 in which the American fleet under Admiral Dewey defeated the Spanish fleet off the shore of Manila in the Phillipines...
Manila
Of or pertaining to Manila or Manilla the capital of the Philippine Islands made in or exported from that city...
manila paper
A durable brown or buff paper or thin cardboard with a smooth light brown finish made of Manila hemp and used as a wrapping paper or as a cheap printing and writing paper The name is also given to inferior papers made of other fiber...
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...
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)...
Bilalo
A two masted passenger boat or small vessel used in the bay of Manila...
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