To pound, beat, rub, or grind small or fine.
- To utter the loud, harsh cry of a donkey.
- To sound loudly and harshly: The foghorn brayed all night.
- To emit (an utterance or a sound) loudly and harshly.
- The loud, harsh cry of a donkey.
- A sound resembling that of a donkey: "an endless bray of pointless jocosity” ( Louis Auchincloss).
- To crush and pound to a fine consistency, as in a mortar.
- To spread (ink) thinly over a surface.