Crossword clues for braying
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bray \Bray\ (br[=a]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Brayed (br[=a]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Braying.] [OE. brayen, OF. breier, F. broyer to pound, grind, fr. OHG. 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.
--Prov.
xxvii. 22.
Braying \Bray"ing\, a.
Making a harsh noise; blaring. ``Braying trumpets.''
--Shak.
Wiktionary
n. An act or sound of braying. vb. (present participle of bray English)
Usage examples of "braying".
Don Quixote assumed that these people were from the braying village, and he told Sancho this as he read to him what was written on the banner.
When braying is the music, what counterpoint can there be except a beating?
It seemed I could hear it braying its terrible bleak lonesomeness forever.
The masters like to say that Daryans and northerners are louts and liars, goat-footed and braying like asses.
She heard ahead of them the shouts and halloos of a host of men, and the braying, barking, caterwauling, and neighing of a mob of animals.
Mules braying in the stables, and seabirds crying out as they whirled above us, but no words, nor did I really expect many.
Above, what seemed like miles and miles above, he heard the frightened mule braying and Meer yelling his name, but though he fought sobbing for air he could not speak or call out.
All he saw were kids from good schools with rich daddies, braying boys who elbowed him off the pavements and disdainful girls who swept past him as if he did not exist.
The masters like to say that Daryans and northerners are louts and liars, goat-footed and braying like asses.
Mules braying in the stables, and seabirds crying out as they whirled above us, but no words, nor did I really expect many.
They too stood and watched the beasts coupling, the male donkey braying ecstatically.
In the shed was a cow, and a frightened ass braying, a woman with her hands between the legs of a sheep, and the sheep producing a lamb, bleating its heart out.
Brooke presented himself on the balcony, the cheers were quite loud enough to counterbalance the yells, groans, brayings, and other expressions of adverse theory, which were so moderate that Mr.
And instead of the deadly silence the whole place rang with the sound of happy roarings, brayings, yelpings, barkings, squealings, cooings, neighings, stampings, shouts, hurrahs, songs and laughter.