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Verb
baying
- present participle and gerund of bay
The mob approached the castle, baying for royal blood.
Noun
baying (countable and uncountable, plural bayings)
- 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...
1885, “The Dogs of War”, in Charles Dickens, Jr, editor, 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.
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.
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