bray

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To utter the loud, harsh cry of a donkey.
• intransitive verb To sound loudly and harshly.
• intransitive verb To emit (an utterance or a sound) loudly and harshly.
• noun The loud, harsh cry of a donkey.
• noun A sound resembling that of a donkey.
• transitive verb To crush and pound to a fine consistency, as in a mortar.
• transitive verb To spread (ink) thinly over a surface.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A piece of sloping ground; an acclivity or declivity.
• noun A harsh cry, especially that of an ass; hence, any similar harsh or grating sound.
• noun A clout for a young child. Kersey, 1708.
• noun In heraldry: Barnacles or twitchers for subduring a horse: used as a bearing.
• noun [Perhaps a corruption of brake, break.] A bearing similar to the preceding in form, representing a tool used for breaking hemp: sometimes called a hempbray, hemp-brake, or hackle.
• noun A bank or mound of earth used in fortification; a breastwork; a bulwark; specifically, a wall or other work in advance of and covering the gate of a fortress.
• To pound or beat thoroughly, as with a pestle or other instrument; triturate, crush, mix, etc., by beating or any analogous action: as to bray drugs; to bray printers' ink. See brayer.
• In cloth-finishing, to pound (woolen cloth) in a soapy scouring-liquor: same as full. See full and fulling.
• To utter a loud and harsh cry: with reference now especially to the ass, but formerly also to the bull, deer, and other animals, as well as to man.
• Hence To make a loud, harsh, disagreeable sound.
• To utter with a loud, harsh sound, like the ass.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun North of Eng. & Scot. A bank; the slope of a hill; a hill. See brae, which is now the usual spelling.
• intransitive verb To utter a loud, harsh cry, as an ass.
• intransitive verb To make a harsh, grating, or discordant noise.
• transitive verb To make or utter with a loud, discordant, or harsh and grating sound.
• noun The harsh cry of an ass; also, any harsh, grating, or discordant sound.
• transitive verb To pound, beat, rub, or grind small or fine.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb Of a donkey, to make its cry.
• verb Of a camel, to make its cry
• noun The cry of an ass or donkey.
• noun The cry of a camel
• verb To crush or pound, especially with a mortar.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb braying characteristic of donkeys
• verb laugh loudly and harshly
• verb reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
• noun the cry of an ass