Definition of "baying"

baying

verb
1. present participle and gerund of bay
noun
countable and uncountable, plural bayings
1. An instance of baying; a howl.
  Quotations
  Soon as he hears bayings, and is not alarm'd nor affrighted...
  1877, Charles Cayley (translator), Homer Iliad, book XXI
  ...the distressed bayings of his dogs, ...
  1880, Mark Twain, chapter 24, in A Tramp Abroad‎
  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
  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 Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 279
  Who, tossing back and forth his triple heads,/ With mighty bayings watches o'er the realm.
  1907, Frank Justus Miller (translator), Seneca, Hercules Furens Act III