baying

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Verb

1. present participle of bay#English|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, Charles Cayley (translator), Homer] {{w|Iliad]], book XXI ↗

     Soon as he hears bayings, and is not alarm'd nor affrighted...

   • 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.

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