baying

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baying

Present participle of bay.

The mob approached the castle, baying for royal blood.

baying (plural bayings)

Action of the verb to bay; howling.

She quickly grew weary of the beast's constant baying.
An instance of baying; a howl.
- 1877, Homer, translated by C. B. Cayley, The Iliad, book XXI
  
  Soon as he hears bayings, and is not alarm'd nor affrighted...
- 1880, Mark Twain, A Tramp Abroad, chapter 24
  
  ...the distressed bayings of his dogs, ...
- 1885, ed. by Charles Dickens, Jr, "The Dogs of War" in All the Year Round, 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.
- 1907, Seneca, translated by Frank Justus Miller, Hercules Furens Act III
  
  Who, tossing back and forth his triple heads,/ With mighty bayings watches o'er the realm.