transitive verb. To crush and pound to a fine consistency, as in a mortar.

transitive verb. To spread (ink) thinly over a surface.

intransitive verb. To utter the loud, harsh cry of a donkey.

intransitive verb. To sound loudly and harshly.

intransitive verb. To emit (an utterance or a sound) loudly and harshly.

noun. The loud, harsh cry of a donkey.

noun. A sound resembling that of a donkey.

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.

noun. 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.

noun. A piece of sloping ground; an acclivity or declivity.

noun. A harsh cry, especially that of an ass; hence, any similar harsh or grating sound.

In cloth-finishing, to pound (woolen cloth) in a soapy scouring-liquor: same as full. See full and fulling.

noun. A clout for a young child. Kersey, 1708.

noun. In heraldry: Barnacles or twitchers for subduring a horse: used as a bearing.

noun. [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.

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.

intransitive verb. To utter a loud, harsh cry, as an ass.

intransitive verb. To make a harsh, grating, or discordant noise.

transitive verb. To make or utter with a loud, discordant, or harsh and grating sound.

noun. The harsh cry of an ass; also, any harsh, grating, or discordant sound.

transitive verb. To pound, beat, rub, or grind small or fine.

noun. A bank; the slope of a hill; a hill. See brae, which is now the usual spelling.

verb. Of a donkey, to make its cry.

verb. Of a camel, to make its cry

noun. The cry of an ass or donkey.

noun. The cry of a camel

verb. To crush or pound, especially with a mortar.

verb. braying characteristic of donkeys

verb. laugh loudly and harshly

verb. reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading

noun. the cry of an ass

"The bray is a way to bond and a way to communicate with the other penguins."

brayed  braying  

cry  emit  express joy  express mirth  laugh  

A  A.  Bay  Bombay  Bua  

bellow  blare  breathy  cacophony  clamor  

abrade  atomize  bank  bark  bawl  

brae  

brayed  braying  brays