Crossword-Solution: BRAY
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Bray | v. t. | To pound, beat, rub, or grind small or fine. |
| Bray | v. i. | To utter a loud, harsh cry, as an ass. |
| Bray | v. i. | To make a harsh, grating, or discordant noise. |
| Bray | v. t. | To make or utter with a loud, discordant, or harsh and grating sound. |
| Bray | n. | The harsh cry of an ass; also, any harsh, grating, or discordant sound. |
| Bray | n. | A bank; the slope of a hill; a hill. See Brae, which is now the usual spelling. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| BRAY | anagram | BARY, BRYA |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with BRAY (5)
Presently tall columns of steam burst from the 'scape-pipes of both steamers, two guns boom a good-bye, two red-shirted heroes mounted on capstans wave their small flags above the massed crews on the forecastles, two plaintive solos linger on the air a few waiting seconds, two mighty choruses burst forth--and here they come! Brass bands bray Hail Columbia, huzza after huzza thunders from the shores, and the stately creatures go whistling by like the wind.
Through the stillness of the pause which followed, the bray of a motor-horn sounded far down the drive.
Whomsoever they greet may bark like a dog, meeouw like a cat, or bray like an ass, as much as he chooses; but if he speaks a decent word, his tongue shall be silenced with stripes.
The dogs were led by attendants, apparently selected on the principle of the larger the dog the smaller the custodian; while the donkeys were the only creatures unmoved by their surroundings, for they slept peaceably through the procession, occasionally waking up to bray their sense of boredom.
Down Albert's riven streets the moon is leering; The Hanging Virgin takes its bitter ray; And all the road from Hamel I am hearing The silver rage of bugles over Bray.
Quotes with BRAY (3)
You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.
The Devil answer'd: bray a fool in a morter with wheat, yet shall not his folly be beaten out of him; if Jesus Christ is the greatest man, you ought to love him in the greatest degree; now hear how he has given his sanction to the law of ten commandments: did he not mock at the sabbath, and so mock the sabbaths God? murder those who were murder'd because of him? turn away the law from the woman taken in adultery? steal the labor of others to support him? bear false witness wh…
In the books I find the thrum of everything unsayable. The characters weep the way I want to, love the way I want to, cry, die, beat their breasts, and bray with life.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 192 times in crossword archives (1950–2024).