bray

bray englannista suomeksi

1. murskata, survoa

2. huutaa

3. ulvoa, kiljua

4. kiljaisu

1. kiljua, hirnua

1. Verbi

bray englanniksi

1. Of an animal (now chiefly of animals related to the ass or donkey, and the camel): to make its cry.

(synonyms)

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2. (RQ:Spectator)

3. (quote-journal). Translated from the French. Crown 8vo. 2 Vols. 6s. Boards. Debrett. 1792. review|journal=Review (London)|The Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal, Enlarged|location=London|publisher=Printed for Griffiths|Ralph Griffiths; and sold by Thomas Becket,(nb...)|month=July|year=1792|year_published=1794|volume=VIII|page=249|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/monthlyreview52grifgoog/page/n258/mode/1up|oclc=901376714|passage=IV of France|Henry IV of France, paſſing through a little town, ſaw ſeveral deputies coming up to harangue him. One of them having commenced his diſcourſe, was interrupted by an aſs, who began to bray. "Gentlemen," cried the King, "one at a time, if you pleaſe."—

4. (quote-book)|chapter=The Ass|translator=Smellie (encyclopedist)|William Smellie|title=Naturelle|Natural History, General and Particular,(nb...). The History of Man and Quadrupeds: Translated, with Notes and Observations,(nb...) In Twenty Volumes|location=London|publisher=Printed for & Davies|Thomas Cadell and William Davies,(nb...)|year=1812|volume=IV|page=174|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=1HNGAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA174|oclc=841641381|passage=The horse neighs, but the ass brays: the last is performed by a very loud, long, disagreeable, discordant cry, consisting of discords alternately sharp and flat. He seldom brays but when pressed with hunger or love. ... When gelded, the ass brays with a low voice; and, though he makes the same efforts and the same motions of the throat, yet the sound reaches to no great distance.

5. To make a harsh, discordant sound like a donkey's bray.

6. (quote-book)|date=8 August 1757|year_published=1768|section=stanza II.3|page=64|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/poems03graygoog/page/n76/mode/1up|oclc=1102978403|passage=Heard ye the din of battle bray, / Lance to lance, and horſe to horſe? / Long Years of havock urge their deſtined courſe, / And thro' the kindred ſquadrons mow their way.

7. (quote-book) David John Moore Cornwell|title=A Perfect Spy|location=London|publisher=Hodder & Stoughton|year=1986|isbn=978-0-340-38784-9|edition2=1st Pocket Books trade paperback|location2=New York, N.Y.|publisher2=Pocket Books|year2=January 2003|page2=400|pageurl2=https://books.google.com/books?id=ukCiQluEcwsC&pg=PA400|isbn2=978-0-7434-5792-7|passage="But, Jack, it's all so circumstantial—you said so yourself," Brammel brayed, never stronger than when demonstrating that two positives made a negative.

8. To make or utter (a shout, sound, etc.) discordantly, loudly, or in a harsh and grating manner.

9. (RQ:Milton Paradise Lost)

10. (RQ:Scott Marmion)

11. The cry of an animal, now chiefly that of animals related to the ass or donkey, or the camel.

12. Any discordant, grating, or harsh sound.

13. (quote-journal)|year=1843|volume=I|page=143|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=DFlDAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA143|column=2|oclc=503990274|passage=It seems a very nest—warm and snug, and green—for human life; with the twilight haze of time about it, almost consecrating it from the aching hopes and feverish expectations of the present. Who would think that the bray and roar of multitudinous London sounded but some sixty miles away?

14. (quote-journal)|month=April|year=1876|volume=XLVI|issue=XCI|page=257|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=hj87AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA257|oclc=1044051325|passage=... Mr. Gosse|Edmund Gosse's blank verse is sweet and varied, and full mostly of a graceful melody. If it has not the trumpet's power, neither has it the trumpet's bray, but rather a flute-like tone of its own.

15. (quote-book)

16. To crush or pound, especially using a pestle and mortar.

17. (RQ:King James Version)

18. (RQ:Smith Generall Historie)

19. (quote-book) for Henrie Fetherstone,(nb...)|year=1625|volume=II|page=1643 &91;''sic'': 1653&93;|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=XRZZAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA653|oclc=63012317|passage=They boyle it alſo, and after dry it and bray it, and of this bran, with egges, hony, milke, and butter of Cocos, they make Florentines, and verie good belly-timber.

20. To hit (someone or something).

21. (alt form)