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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.

An implement for braying and spreading ink in hand printing.

Making a harsh noise; blaring. "Braying trumpets." Shak.

See Abraid. [Obs.] Spenser.

A gingham woven in plain colors with linen finish.

A second raampart, exterior to, and parallel to, the main rampart, and considerably below its level.

To exceed in braying.

ped of the genus Equus (E. asinus), smaller than the horse, and having a peculiarly harsh bray and long ears. The tame or domestic ass is patient, slow, and sure-footed, and has become the type of obstinacy and stupidity. There are several species of wild asses which are swift-footed.

st men call. Spenser. Glory, that blatant word, which haunts some military minds like the bray of the trumpet. W. Irving.

To break; as in a mortar; to bray, as minerals, roots, etc.; to crush. Nor bruise her flowerets with the armed hoofs. Shak.

nce; bold; undaunted. As confident as is the falcon's flight Against a bird, do I with Mowbray fight. Shak.

e; another (S. Magellanicus) is found at the Falkland Islands. They make a noise like the braying of an ass; -- hence the name. -- Laughing jackass. (Zoöl.) See under Laughing.

An Abyssinian rosaceous tree (Brayera anthelmintica), the flowers of which are used as a vermifuge. [Written also cusso and kosso.]

A kind of soft sweet-milk cheese; -- so called from Neufchâtel- en-Bray in France.

An implement for pounding and breaking or braying substances in a mortar.

ite. Reverse the doom of death. Shak. She reversed the conduct of the celebrated vicar of Bray. Sir W. Scott.