out-bray, v.
[out- 15, 18.]
† 1. trans. To bray out, ejaculate, utter: see bray v.1 4, and cf. abray v. 3 b. (Properly two words.) Obs.
| 1558 G. Cavendish Poems (1825) II. 39 Hir voyce she out brayd. 1559 Mirr. Mag. (1563) Q j, Whose rufull voyce no sooner had out brayed Those wofull wordes. Ibid. X ij, Wyth a sygh outbrayed, With woful cheare these woful wurdes he sayd. 1603 Florio Montaigne ii. xii. (1632) 310 For it enraged rave's, and idle talk outbrayes. |
2. To outdo or surpass in braying or roaring.
| 1806–7 J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life (1826) iv. vii, A cart containing a million of iron bars which you must out-bray. |