Bray: Definition and part of speech

Bray

  1. n. A bank; the slope of a hill; a hill. See Brae, which is now the usual spelling.
  2. v. t. To pound, beat, rub, or grind small or fine.
  3. v. i. To utter a loud, harsh cry, as an ass.
  4. v. i. To make a harsh, grating, or discordant noise.
  5. v. t. To make or utter with a loud, discordant, or harsh and grating sound.
  6. n. The harsh cry of an ass; also, any harsh, grating, or discordant sound.
  7. The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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