Baying

Verb

1. Present participle of bayThe mob approached the castle, baying for royal blood.

Full definition of baying

Noun

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 , , book XXISoon as he hears bayings, and is not alarm'd nor affrighted...
• 1880, Mark Twain, , chapter 24...the distressed bayings of his dogs, ...
• 1885, ed. by Charles Dickens, Jr, "The Dogs of War" in , Volume XXXVIAnd 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 the Younger, translated by Frank Justus Miller, Hercules Furens Act IIIWho, tossing back and forth his triple heads,/ With mighty bayings watches o'er the realm.

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• abying