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Bray

noun

The cry of an ass.

verb

(past & past part. brayed; pres. part. braying)

Braying characteristic of donkeys. Synonym: hee-haw.

Reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading. Synonyms: comminute, crunch, grind, mash. "Mash the garlic"

Laugh loudly and harshly.

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"Bray" Quotes from Famous Books

... wonderful. You say, 'How can he manage it?' and 'It's very wonderful for a bass;' but it is not pleasant in itself. In like manner, I have always felt a disgust when Mr. So-and-so comes forward to make his sweet flute bleat and bray like a hautbois; it's forcing the poor thing to do what ...

— Loss and Gain - The Story of a Convert • John Henry Newman

... before the Common Bench in 1293, and decided by an eminent justice of the period in relation to a certain Geoffrey, who had committed felony, and before this became known had disposed of tenements to one John de Bray. "Inasmuch," said Metingham, "as all those who are of his blood are debarred from demanding through him who committed the felony, in like manner every assign ought to be barred from defending the right to tenements which have ...

— The Customs of Old England • F. J. Snell

... sir, remember that the ass can kick, And that when kicking, asses never bray, So gird your armor on and lop each head Who hath at your ...

— 'A Comedy of Errors' in Seven Acts • Spokeshave (AKA Old Fogy)

... of his in Dryden's Miscellany. He translated Plutarch's Life of Alexander from the Greek; and the History of Two Grand Viziers, from the French. When only nineteen, he translated from the Latin, Rapin on Gardens. He died in 1698. The Quarterly Review, in its review of Mr. Bray's Memoirs of Evelyn, thus speaks of this son, and of his father:—"It was his painful lot to follow to the grave his only remaining son, in the forty-fourth year of his age, a man of much ability and reputation, worthy to have supported the honour of ...

— On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, • Samuel Felton

... Bray," broke in Dodge stiffly. "As for you fellows, the best thing you can all do is to go back to your cradles. Bray and I want to sleep the night through. And you've no ...

— Dick Prescott's Second Year at West Point - Finding the Glory of the Soldier's Life • H. Irving Hancock

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