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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.
1558G. Cavendish Poems (1825) II. 39 Hir voyce she out brayd. 1559Mirr. 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. 1603Florio Montaigne ii. xii. (1632) 310 For it enraged rave's, and idle talk outbrayes.
2. To outdo or surpass in braying or roaring.
1806–7J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life (1826) iv. vii, A cart containing a million of iron bars which you must out-bray. |