Verb (used with object) : a troubled hound baying the moon. ,A dog bays its quarry. From Dictionary.com.
On that note, let the trolls begin baying at the moon …. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » ThinkFast: April 27, 2006] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Deer Hunting with Dogs] Reference
It's apparently what's called baying, by the way. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 13, 2008] Reference
The baying of the Great Dane rang in his ears then. From Wordnik.com. [The Monster] Reference
The boar, and scare him with their baying, and drive. From Wordnik.com. [The Georgics] Reference
The awful baying voices gained on us, minute by minute. From Wordnik.com. [The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys] Reference
A half dozen hounds came baying and barking around him. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
The dog baying at the cat in the tree is the prey of such. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
Inside the sugar-sack walls, the crowd is baying for action. From Wordnik.com. [Fighting To Survive] Reference
The baying of the hounds brought old Simpson out to the road. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
The baying of a hound and the angry barking of another dog was. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods] Reference
Now that the wound has been reopened, the KMT is back baying for blood. From Wordnik.com. [WHO SHOT THE PRESIDENT?] Reference
Their deep baying sent the chill of fear to the staunch heart of Silver. From Wordnik.com. [Followers of the Trail] Reference
Am I foolishly dreaming, just baying at the moon, playing impossible. From Wordnik.com. [Carole King Invites Fans into the 'Living Room'] Reference
And the baying of the Great Dane sounded angrily in Fred Trent's ears. From Wordnik.com. [The Monster] Reference
Jim and Jo now heard the voices of men as well as the baying of the dogs. From Wordnik.com. [Frontier Boys on the Coast or in the Pirate's Power] Reference
And the press were baying for blood now, they gave them a week at the most. From Wordnik.com. [The Ballads of Richard Thompson] Reference
Occasionally he would stop for a minute's rest and to listen for the baying of. From Wordnik.com. [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference
Almost at once, however, his steps were arrested by the faint baying of a hound. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
Trapper Jim had to go out once to quiet Ajax, whose deep-toned baying seemed to annoy him. From Wordnik.com. [With Trapper Jim in the North Woods] Reference
He heard the dim baying of the Great Dane from the rear of the house as he leaped forward. From Wordnik.com. [The Monster] Reference
That shriek was enough, without the baying of the hound, to bring their enemies to the water's edge. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies The Missing Pearl Necklace] Reference
Another believed he was a dog baying at the full moon, and I nearly took a fit listening to him whoop. From Wordnik.com. [Afloat or, Adventures on Watery Trails] Reference
Hunting parties were organized, but the baying, terrified hounds do not appear in contemporaneous accounts. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
Autumn nights, above the distant rumble of the cannon rose only the plaintive cry of stray dogs baying at the moon. From Wordnik.com. [With Those Who Wait] Reference
Their brandished spears made nimbuses over their heads; and this time their response was like the baying of hounds. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
Some dogs began barking, and the hermit's hound replied by baying with his nose in the air -- a sound to make anybody shiver!. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods] Reference
'Twar more'n an hour afore we kotched up; but dar he war, and de houns baying' way as ef dey know'd what an ole debble he am. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time] Reference
In the distance the loud baying of hounds told that some creatures of the wild were being pursued by their relentless enemies. From Wordnik.com. [The Kentucky Ranger] Reference
At times the warring parties look no better than third-rate Savonarolas baying after second-rate daubers, scribblers and shutterbugs. From Wordnik.com. [Fine Art Or Foul?] Reference
They reached a large rock that stood out on the plain away from the house, and sat down on it, until the noise of the baying had ceased. From Wordnik.com. [Frontier Boys in Frisco] Reference
Growth slowed markedly in the second quarter, and if it does so again in the third, Wall Street will be baying for steps to boost growth. From Wordnik.com. [Growth deniers and deficit deniers. Let the battle begin] Reference
Even the wolf -- from Benderloch no doubt -- came baying at night at the empty gibbets at the town-head, that spoke of the law's suspense. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
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