These are the meanings of the letters YABU when you unscramble them.
- Aby (v. t. & i.)
Alt. of Abye
- Bay (a.)
Reddish brown; of the color of a chestnut; -- applied to the color of horses.
- Bay (n.)
A bank or dam to keep back water.
- Bay (n.)
A berry, particularly of the laurel.
- Bay (n.)
A compartment in a barn, for depositing hay, or grain in the stalks.
- Bay (n.)
A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeachy Bay.
- Bay (n.)
A principal compartment of the walls, roof, or other part of a building, or of the whole building, as marked off by the buttresses, vaulting, mullions of a window, etc.; one of the main divisions of any structure, as the part of a bridge between two piers.
- Bay (n.)
A recess or indentation shaped like a bay.
- Bay (n.)
A small body of water set off from the main body; as a compartment containing water for a wheel; the portion of a canal just outside of the gates of a lock, etc.
- Bay (n.)
A tract covered with bay trees.
- Bay (n.)
An inlet of the sea, usually smaller than a gulf, but of the same general character.
- Bay (n.)
The laurel tree (Laurus nobilis). Hence, in the plural, an honorary garland or crown bestowed as a prize for victory or excellence, anciently made or consisting of branches of the laurel.
- Bay (v. i.)
A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible.
- Bay (v. i.)
Deep-toned, prolonged barking.
- Bay (v. i.)
To bark, as a dog with a deep voice does, at his game.
- Bay (v. t.)
To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay; as, to bay the bear.
- Bay (v. t.)
To bathe.
- Bay (v. t.)
To dam, as water; -- with up or back.
- Buy (v. i.)
To negotiate or treat about a purchase.
- Buy (v. t.)
To acquire or procure by something given or done in exchange, literally or figuratively; to get, at a cost or sacrifice; to buy pleasure with pain.
- Buy (v. t.)
To acquire the ownership of (property) by giving an accepted price or consideration therefor, or by agreeing to do so; to acquire by the payment of a price or value; to purchase; -- opposed to sell.