Bray

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • verb-intransitive. To utter the loud, harsh cry of a donkey.
  • verb-intransitive. To sound loudly and harshly: The foghorn brayed all night.
  • v. To emit (an utterance or a sound) loudly and harshly.
  • n. The loud, harsh cry of a donkey.
  • n. A sound resembling that of a donkey: "an endless bray of pointless jocosity” ( Louis Auchincloss).
  • v. To crush and pound to a fine consistency, as in a mortar.
  • v. To spread (ink) thinly over a surface.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To crush or pound, especially with a mortar.
  • v. Of a donkey, to make its cry.
  • v. Of a camel, to make its cry
  • n. The cry of an ass or donkey.
  • n. The cry of a camel
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To pound, beat, rub, or grind small or fine.
  • verb-intransitive. To utter a loud, harsh cry, as an ass.
  • verb-intransitive. To make a harsh, grating, or discordant noise.
  • v. To make or utter with a loud, discordant, or harsh and grating sound.
  • n. The harsh cry of an ass; also, any harsh, grating, or discordant sound.
  • n. A bank; the slope of a hill; a hill. See brae, which is now the usual spelling.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To pound or beat thoroughly, as with a pestle or other instrument; triturate, crush, mix, etc., by beating or any analogous action: as to bray drugs; to bray printers' ink. See brayer.
  • To utter a loud and harsh cry: with reference now especially to the ass, but formerly also to the bull, deer, and other animals, as well as to man.
  • Hence To make a loud, harsh, disagreeable sound.
  • To utter with a loud, harsh sound, like the ass.
  • n. A harsh cry, especially that of an ass; hence, any similar harsh or grating sound.
  • n. A bank or mound of earth used in fortification; a breastwork; a bulwark; specifically, a wall or other work in advance of and covering the gate of a fortress.
  • n. A piece of sloping ground; an acclivity or declivity.
  • n. A clout for a young child. Kersey, 1708.
  • n. In heraldry: Barnacles or twitchers for subduring a horse: used as a bearing.
  • n. [Perhaps a corruption of brake, break.] A bearing similar to the preceding in form, representing a tool used for breaking hemp: sometimes called a hempbray, hemp-brake, or hackle.
  • In cloth-finishing, to pound (woolen cloth) in a soapy scouring-liquor: same as full. See full and fulling.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. braying characteristic of donkeys
  • v. laugh loudly and harshly
  • v. reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
  • n. the cry of an ass
  • Verb Form
    brayed    braying    brays   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    emit    let out    let loose    utter    laugh    express mirth    express joy    cry   
    Variant
    brae   
    Form
    brayed    braying   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    bank    cry    hee-haw    grind   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    A    A.    Bay    Bombay    Bua    Ca    Cabernet    Calais    Cathay    Chevrolet   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    blare    whoop    clangor    raucous    strident    hoot    rasp    clang    ear-splitting    clamor