baying
Word-form referencesbay
Noun
An instance of baying; a howl.
Usage- Countable
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1877, Charles Cayley (translator), Homer Iliad, book XXI Soon as he hears bayings, and is not alarm'd nor affrighted...
...the distressed bayings of his dogs, ...
More examples (3)
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.
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.
Word forms
bayings