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.