outbray

English

Etymology

out- +‎ bray

Verb

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

1. (obsolete, transitive) To exceed in braying.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To exhale; outbreathe.
   • 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Tenth Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC, stanza 1, page 179:

     The ſnake (that on his creſt hot fire out braid, [...]

3. (obsolete, transitive) To emit with great noise; bray out.
4. (obsolete, transitive) 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)