Baying vs Laying - What's the difference?
baying | laying |
Action of the verb to bay ; howling.
An instance of baying; a howl.
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*:...the distressed bayings of his dogs, ...
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* 1907 , , translated by Frank Justus Miller, Hercules Furens
As verbs the difference between baying and laying
is that baying is while laying is .As a noun baying
is action of the verb to bay ; howling.baying
English
Verb
(head)- The mob approached the castle, baying for royal blood.
Noun
(en noun)- She quickly grew weary of the beast's constant baying .
book XXI
- Soon as he hears bayings , and is not alarm'd nor affrighted...
chapter 24
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.
Act III
- Who, tossing back and forth his triple heads,/ With mighty bayings watches o'er the realm.