outbray

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English

Etymology

From out- +‎ bray.

Verb

outbray (third-person singular simple present outbrays, present participle outbraying, simple past and past participle outbrayed)

  1. (transitive) To exceed in braying.
    • 1972, Frances Marion, Off with Their Heads: A Serio-comic Tale of Hollywood (paeg 195)
      could outbray a donkey.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To exhale; outbreathe.
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To emit with great noise; bray out.
  4. (obsolete, transitive) (Can we verify(+) this sense?) To take out (e.g. a sword).

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “outbray”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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