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Word Meanings - BRAYING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Making a harsh noise; blaring. "Braying trumpets." Shak.

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  • BLATANT
    Bellowing, as a calf; bawling; brawling; clamoring; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly. "Harsh and blatant tone." R. H. Dana. A monster, which the blatant beast men call. Spenser. Glory, that blatant word, which haunts some military
  • CLAMOROUS
    Speaking and repeating loud words; full of clamor; calling or demanding loudly or urgently; vociferous; noisy; bawling; loud; turbulent. "My young ones were clamorous for a morning's excursion." Southey. -- Clam"or*ous*ly, adv. -- Clam"or*ous*ness,
  • VOCIFEROUS
    Making a loud outcry; clamorous; noisy; as, vociferous heralds. -- Vo*cif"er*ous*ly, adv. -- Vo*cif"er*ous*ness, n.
  • BELLOWS
    An instrument, utensil, or machine, which, by alternate expansion and contraction, or by rise and fall of the top, draws in air through a valve and expels it through a tube for various purposes, as blowing fires, ventilating mines, or filling the
  • NOISY
    1. Making a noise, esp. a loud sound; clamorous; vociferous; turbulent; boisterous; as, the noisy crowd. 2. Full of noise. "The noisy town." Dryden.
  • BELLOW
    bellen, and perh. to L. flere to weep, OSlav. bleja to bleat, Lith. 1. To make a hollow, loud noise, as an enraged bull. 2. To bowl; to vociferate; to clamor. Dryden. 3. To roar; as the sea in a tempest, or as the wind when violent; to make a loud,
  • BLATANTLY
    In a blatant manner.
  • BRAYER
    An implement for braying and spreading ink in hand printing.
  • BELLOWER
    One who, or that which, bellows.
  • BRAYING
    Making a harsh noise; blaring. "Braying trumpets." Shak.
  • BRAY
    To pound, beat, rub, or grind small or fine. Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar, . . . yet will not his foolishness depart from him. Prov. xxvii. 22.
  • BELLOWS FISH
    A European fish , distinguished by a long tubular snout, like the pipe of a bellows; -- called also trumpet fish, and snipe fish.
  • REBELLOW
    To bellow again; to repeat or echo a bellow. The cave rebellowed, and the temple shook. Dryden.
  • FAUSSE-BRAYE
    A second raampart, exterior to, and parallel to, the main rampart, and considerably below its level.
  • OUTBRAY
    1. To exceed in braying. 2. To emit with great noise. Fairfax.
  • ABRAY
    See SPENSER
  • WATER BELLOWS
    See TROMP
  • CHAMBRAY
    A gingham woven in plain colors with linen finish.

 

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