Word Meanings - BRAYING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BRAYING)

• Blatant
• Noisy
• bellowing
• vociferous
• clamorous
• braying

Related words: (words related to BRAYING)

• 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.