baying

English

Verb

baying

1. present participle and gerund of bay

   The mob approached the castle, baying for royal blood.

Noun

baying (countable and uncountable, plural bayings)

1. An instance of baying; a howl.
   • 1877, Charles Cayley (translator), Homer Iliad, book XXI

     Soon as he hears bayings, and is not alarm'd nor affrighted...

   • 1880, Mark Twain, chapter 24, in A Tramp Abroad‎^[1]:

     ...the distressed bayings of his dogs, ...

   • 1885, “The Dogs of War”, in Charles Dickens, Jr, editor, All the Year Round‎^[2], volume XXXVI:

     And the thrill which their ill-omened bayings send through people at large is a measure of the state of tension in which the general mind is held.

   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 279:

     When I had advanced some distance into the forest, I heard the notes of the bugle and the distant baying of hounds in full cry, which gradually ceased, till nothing but a faint echo of the bugle reached my ear.

   • 1907, Frank Justus Miller (translator), Seneca, Hercules Furens Act III

     Who, tossing back and forth his triple heads,/ With mighty bayings watches o'er the realm.

Anagrams

• Biyang, abying, bignay