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Baying

Bay \Bay\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bayed (b[=a]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Baying.] [OE. bayen, abayen, OF. abaier, F. aboyer, to bark; of uncertain origin.] To bark, as a dog with a deep voice does, at his game.

The hounds at nearer distance hoarsely bayed.
--Dryden.

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baying

n. 1 action of the verb ''to bay''; howling. 2 An instance of baying; a howl. vb. (present participle of bay English)

Usage examples of "baying".

He stood there, the parchment in his mittened hands, baying at the polar moon.

He may have overreached himself, but he was too proud to be humiliated by the swarm of former colleagues now baying for his blood.

Quebec, and chance hunters brought word that what with sleep, and the measured tramp, tramp of the pig, and the baying of the dogs, and the clucking of the chickens inside the fort, the escape of the whites had not been discovered for a week.

They hurled themselves against the leashes, baying and gaping with wide red mouths and long white fangs.

My own hounds' bayings that I loved before, As with them often o'er the purple hills I chased the flying hart from slope to slope, Before the slow sun climbed the eastern peaks, Until the swift sun smote the western plain.

And when the Beasts spoke in answer, he heard only barkings, growlings, bayings, and howlings.

Shortly came a sound that threw the doe into a panic of terror,--a short, sharp yelp, followed by a prolonged howl, caught up and reechoed by other bayings along the mountain-side.