embay

From em- +‎ bay (“bathe”).

embay (third-person singular simple present embays, present participle embaying, simple past and past participle embayed)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To bathe; to steep.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen, III.11:

     Sweete Love, that doth his golden wings embay / In blessed Nectar and pure Pleasures well […].

   • 1600, Edward Fairfax, Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XII, lxii:

     Their swords both points and edges sharp embay / In purple blood whereso they hit or light.

From em- +‎ bay.

• imbay

embay (third-person singular simple present embays, present participle embaying, simple past and past participle embayed)

1. (transitive) To shut in, enclose, shelter or trap, such as ships in a bay.

• embay in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

• Mabey, abyme, beamy, maybe