0 present participle of bray
1 to make a loud, unpleasant noise:
I do not think they realised what an ugly sight that was, with their laughing, braying faces flushed with seven years of an overwhelming majority.
Imagine their discomfiture if they find that, worse than a live band, they are to have a loudspeaker braying at them for hours at a time.
If that person stopped when others started the originator and perpetrator of this offence—the mindless baying and braying of offensive language or animal sounds—might well get away with it.
The violins alternate playing high, loud notes and low, buzzing ones (in the manner of a donkey's braying hee-haw).
The men met their deaths, amongst the braying mob, with calm and resolve.
The bird then waves its head from side to side, braying loudly.
Preliminary analysis of braying calls and cluster analysis of morphometrics partially supported these results.
When courting they will spread their wings, wave their heads, and rap their bills together, while braying.
