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Braying

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bray 1  (br)
v. brayed, bray·ing, brays
v.intr.
1. To utter the loud, harsh cry of a donkey.
2. To sound loudly and harshly: The foghorn brayed all night.
v.tr.
To emit (an utterance or a sound) loudly and harshly.
n.
1. The loud, harsh cry of a donkey.
2. A sound resembling that of a donkey: "an endless bray of pointless jocosity" Louis Auchincloss.
[Middle English braien, from Old French braire, from Vulgar Latin *bragere, of Celtic origin.]
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