Definizione monolingua

baying

baying

1. Present participle of bay.

   The mob approached the castle, baying for royal blood.

baying (plural bayings)

1. Action of the verb to bay; howling.

   She quickly grew weary of the beasts constant baying.

2. An instance of baying; a howl.
   • 1877, Homer, translated by C. B. Cayley, The Iliad, book XXI

     Soon as he hears bayings, and is not alarmd nor affrighted...

   • 1880, Mark Twain, A Tramp Abroad, chapter 24

     ...the distressed bayings of his dogs, ...

   • 1885, ed. by Charles Dickens, Jr, ""The Dogs of War"" in All the Year Round, 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, Seneca, translated by Frank Justus Miller, Hercules Furens Act III

     Who, tossing back and forth his triple heads,/ With mighty bayings watches oer the realm.

Definizione dizionario baying

Altri significati:

An instance of baying; a howl.

Action of the verb to bay; howling.

Present participle of bay.