outbray
English
Etymology
Verb
outbray (third-person singular simple present outbrays, present participle outbraying, simple past and past participle outbrayed)
- (transitive) To exceed in braying.
- 1972, Frances Marion, Off with Their Heads: A Serio-comic Tale of Hollywood (paeg 195)
- […] could outbray a donkey.
- 1972, Frances Marion, Off with Their Heads: A Serio-comic Tale of Hollywood (paeg 195)
- (obsolete, transitive) To exhale; outbreathe.
- 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:
- The ſnake (that on his creſt hot fire out braid, […]
- (obsolete, transitive) To emit with great noise; bray out.
References
- “outbray”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.