baying
English
Verb
baying
- present participle of bay
- The mob approached the castle, baying for royal blood.
Noun
baying (plural bayings)
- Action of the verb to bay; howling.
- She quickly grew weary of the beast's constant baying.
- 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, H.L. Brækstad, transl., 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.
- 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:
- ...the distressed bayings of his dogs, ...
- 1885, "The Dogs of War", All the Year Round, Charles Dickens, Jr (editor), 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, 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.
- 1877, Charles Cayley (translator), Homer Iliad, book XXI
Anagrams
- Biyang, abying, bignay