Bray
Bray (brā) , transitive verb
[Old English brayen, Old French breier, French broyer to pound, grind, from Old High German brehhan to break. See Break.]
To pound, beat, rub, or grind small or fine.
Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar,... yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
Bray , intransitive verb
[OE brayen, French braire to bray, Old French braire to cry, from Late Latin bragire to whinny; perh. from the Celtic and akin to English break; or perh. of imitative origin.]
1.
To utter a loud, harsh cry, as an ass.
Laugh, and they
Return it louder than an ass can bray.
2.
To make a harsh, grating, or discordant noise.
Heard ye the din of battle bray?
Bray , transitive verb
To make or utter with a loud, discordant, or harsh and grating sound.
Arms on armor clashing, brayed
Horrible discord.
And varying notes the war pipes brayed.
Bray , noun
The harsh cry of an ass; also, any harsh, grating, or discordant sound.
The bray and roar of multitudinous London.
Bray , noun
[Old English braye, brey, brew, eyebrow, brow of a hill, hill, bank, Scot. bra, brae, bray, from Anglo-Saxon braw eyebrow, influenced by the allied Icelandic brā eyebrow, bank, also akin to Anglo-Saxon brū eyebrow. See Brow.]
A bank; the slope of a hill; a hill. See Brae, which is now the usual spelling. [North of English & Scottish] — Fairfax