outbray

verb — 3 senses

outbray

verb

Etymology From out- + bray.

1

To exceed in braying.

  • […] could outbray a donkey.1972, Frances Marion, Off with Their Heads: A Serio-comic Tale of Hollywood (paeg 195)
2

Obsolete To exhale; outbreathe.

  • The ſnake (that on his creſt hot fire out braid, […]1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Tenth Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC, stanza 1, page 179:
3

Obsolete To emit with great noise; bray out.

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