…an evergreen Mediterranean shrub with deep green leaves and purple berries. Its aromatic leaves are used in cookery and were formerly used to make triumphal crowns for victors…
…forced to face or confront one’s attackers or pursuers; cornered…
…a perfume, chiefly for the hair, distilled originally from rum and bayberry leaves…
…a historic residential and commercial district in western Boston, Massachusetts, on land along the Charles River that was reclaimed in the 19th century…
…the region around San Francisco Bay, in north central California. Oakland is the hub of the East Bay, San Jose of the South Bay…
…an industrial city in eastern Michigan, on the Saginaw River, near Lake Huron; population 33,874 (est. 2008)…
…a compartment in the fuselage of an aircraft in which bombs are held and from which they may be dropped…
…an inlet of the Atlantic in southern Maine, known for its hundreds of islands and protected anchorages. Portland lies on it…
…a space inside a computer in which a floppy disk, hard disk, or disk drive can be accommodated…
…an industrial port city in northeastern Wisconsin, on Green Bay; population 101,025 (est. 2008)…
…a residential city in east central Florida, southwest of Melbourne; population 100,786 (est. 2008)…
…an inlet of the South China Sea in the Philippines, off central Luzon Island. A large US naval facility closed here in 1992…
…an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico, in southwestern Florida. Tampa and St. Petersburg are among the cities that lie along its shores…
…an extension of the North Atlantic between Baffin Island and Greenland, linked to the Arctic Ocean by three passages. It is largely ice-bound in winter…
…an inlet of the Tasman Sea in New South Wales, Australia, just south of Sydney. It was the site of Captain James Cook’s landing in 1770 and of an early British penal settlement…
…an inlet of the Pacific Ocean, northwest of San Francisco in California, visited by Sir Francis Drake in 1579…
…an administrative region on the eastern coast of the North Island, New Zealand…
…a large inland sea in NE Canada. It is the largest inland sea in the world and is connected to the North Atlantic Ocean via the Hudson Strait…
…a bay or recess in a building where vehicles are loaded and unloaded…
…a free port and tourist resort on the north coast of Jamaica; population 80,400 (est. 2009)…
…a town in central Long Island in New York that includes the villages of Hicksville, Farmingdale, and Oyster Bay; population 301,474 (est. 2008)…
…an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean at the eastern end of Long Island in New York that separates the North Fork and the South Fork of the island…
…an inlet of the Arctic Ocean on the north coast of Alaska. It is a major centre of Alaskan oil production…
…a city on an inlet of Lake Superior in SW Ontario; population 109,140 (2006). It is one of Canada’s major ports…
…a port in Namibia; population 55,000 (est. 2009). It was administratively an exclave of the former Cape Province, South Africa until it was transferred to Namibia in 1994…
…an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico in southeastern Louisiana, south of New Orleans, associated with Jean Lafitte and other early 19th-century outlaws…
…a tidal body in southeastern New Jersey, shielded from the Atlantic Ocean by barrier islands, the site of numerous resorts…
…an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in southeastern Florida, south of Miami, noted for its islands and resorts…
…an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in southeastern Massachusetts, just west of Cape Cod…
…a bay horse of a strong breed originating in the north of England, formerly popular as carriage horses…
…an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico in southeastern Texas, at the mouth of the Colorado River…
…an inlet of the Irish Sea, on the NW coast of England between Cumbria and Lancashire…
…an outfall from a river, reservoir, or canal, or the pool into which this flows…
…a former inlet of the East River in Brooklyn in New York City, the site of the imprisonment of thousands of American prisoners during the American Revolution, many of whom died here…
…an inlet of the South China Sea, in south central Vietnam. It has been a major base for France, Japan, the former Soviet Union, and the US, which had a major installation here during the Vietnam War…
…a large inlet of the North Atlantic on the US coast, extending 320 km (200 miles) northwards through the states of Virginia and Maryland…
…a bay on the SE coast of Cuba. It is the site of a US naval base established in 1903, where suspected members of al-Qaeda and the Taliban were held from 2002…
…a bay on the SW coast of Cuba, scene of an unsuccessful attempt in 1961 by US-backed Cuban exiles to invade the country and overthrow the regime of Fidel Castro…
