intransitive. Hunting. Of a hound: to bay or cry loudly when on a scent or in sight of the quarry. Also figurative.

Said of the yelping of hounds in the chase.

intransitive. Of a hunting dog: to bay at the sight of game; to bark, yelp. Also transitive: to bay at (game). Obsolete.

intransitive. Of other animals: to make a sound or call likened to a song or chant; †spec. (of hounds) to bay (obsolete).

intransitive. Hunting (chiefly Fox-hunting). Of a hound: to bark too loudly or without reason.

Idle or malicious talk; = jaw, n.1 6 to lead chawle, to give mouth. Obsolete.

to spend the mouth, to spend the tongue, etc. Of hunting dogs: To bark or give tongue on finding or seeing the game. Also figurative. Obsolete.

absol. = 9b. Obsolete.

Of a dog. In phrases: to move (its) tongue, to bark (archaic); to give tongue, to throw (its) tongue, of a hound: to give forth its voice when on…

Of a dog. In phrases: to move (its) tongue, to bark (archaic); to give tongue, to throw (its) tongue, of a hound: to give forth its voice when on…

transferred. Of a hound: To give tongue; to bay.

Of a hound: To give tongue.

The bark of a hound or other dog.