baying

English

Verb

baying

1. present participle of bay

   The mob approached the castle, baying for royal blood.

Noun

baying (plural bayings)

1. Action of the verb to bay; howling.

   She quickly grew weary of the beast's constant baying.

2. 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, chapter 24, in A Tramp Abroad‎^[1]:

     ...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.

Anagrams

• abying, bignay