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baying en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) An instance of baying; a howl.
    • ...the distressed bayings of his dogs, ... 1880, Mark Twain, chapter 24, in A Tramp Abroad:
    • 1877, Charles Cayley (translator), Homer Iliad, book XXI Soon as he hears bayings, and is not alarm'd nor affrighted...
    • 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.
    • 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. 1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 279:
    • 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. 1885, “The Dogs of War”, in Charles Dickens, Jr, editor, All the Year Round, volume XXXVI:

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baying en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of bay
    form of bay
    • The mob approached the castle, baying for royal blood.