Meanings
verboutbray (third-person singular simple present outbrays, present participle outbraying, simple past and past participle outbrayed)
present singular third person outbrays · participle present outbraying · participle past outbrayed · past outbrayed
- transitiveTo exceed in braying.
[…] could outbray a donkey.
1972, Frances Marion, Off with Their Heads: A Serio-comic Tale of Hollywood (paeg 195) - obsoletetransitiveTo exhale; outbreathe.
The ſnake (that on his creſt hot fire out braid, […]
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 - obsoletetransitiveTo emit with great noise; bray out.
Origin
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