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  • verb Present participle of bay.
  • noun Action of the verb to bay; howling.
  • noun An instance of baying; a howl.

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Examples

  • We put our tracking dogs on the track and she went in baying and when we couldn't get in to her she came back bloodied.

    Deer Hunting with Dogs 2009

  • We put our tracking dogs on the track and she went in baying and when we couldn't get in to her she came back bloodied.

    Deer Hunting with Dogs 2009

  • We put our tracking dogs on the track and she went in baying and when we couldn't get in to her she came back bloodied.

    Deer Hunting with Dogs 2009

  • We put our tracking dogs on the track and she went in baying and when we couldn't get in to her she came back bloodied.

    Deer Hunting with Dogs 2009

  • On that note, let the trolls begin baying at the moon …

    Think Progress » ThinkFast: April 27, 2006 2006

  • They would follow the convoy all day long, with the furtive air characteristic of those to whom life means nothing but a constant dodging of half-bricks violently hurled; and at night they would sit around in a circle and perform the mournful operation known as baying the moon, which they did with prodigious enthusiasm and complete indifference as to whether there was a moon or not.

    With Our Army in Palestine Antony Bluett

  • Somehow, the idea of baying, greedy crowds fighting for $100 off some piece of electronica seems like the equivalent of searching for stray wax in a stranger's ears.

    freshnews.org - most clicked links 2009

  • Welcome to our live coverage of the GOP presidential debate tonight in Orlando, Florida, before an audience of 3,500 Republicans baying for blood – someone's blood.

    GOP presidential candidates debate in Orlando - as it happened 2011

  • None of the eurosceptics baying for a referendum objects to Mayfair, Kensington and Knightsbridge becoming ghost towns owned by foreigners, nor to swaths of our great companies and brands falling into foreign ownership.

    'As an act of crass stupidity, this has rarely been equalled' | Will Hutton 2011

  • But public and press were baying for the pole in the light of this sudden threat to national pride.

    Scott of the Antarctic: hero or buffoon? 2011

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