The act of producing howls.
The howling of wolves is haunting at night.
present participle and gerund of howl
"They have turned a great old English institution into a shameful clip-joint. It's a shuddering, howling tragedy."
That howls.
howling wind
That causes one to howl or feel like howling; deeply distressing.
Ah! the death of the poor, the empty entrails, howling hunger, the animal appetite that leads one with chattering teeth to fill one's stomach with beastly refuse in this great Paris, so bright and golden!
A surname originating as a patronymic.
From Middle English howlinge, howlynge, equivalent to howl + -ing (present participle ending).
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Used as an intensifier
Those were days that I had success, for I could see it, and feel it, and taste it, and my patrons caught the contagion and we had a howling success .