Definition of "neighing"

neighing

verb
1. present participle and gerund of neigh
noun
countable and uncountable, plural neighings
1. The sound made by a horse: an act or instance of the verb neigh.
  Quotations
  And when the earth beneath his tameless tread,Shook with the sullen thunder, he would spreadHis nostrils to the blast, and joyouslyMock the fierce peal with neighings; […]
  1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, page 278
  During the night a neighing of horses was heard, and when day broke, they found these three animals had joined those belonging to our party.
  1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 106
  Old pigtailed seamen would tell of horseshoes found in the meat casks; of curious barkings and neighings heard in the slaughter-houses; and of negroes who disappeared near the victualling yards, to be seen no more.
  1905, John Masefield, Sea Life in Nelson's Time