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BRAY
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English
English : habitational name from places in Berkshire and Devon. The former is probably named with Old French bray ‘marsh’, the latter from the Cornish element bre ‘hill’.
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English
English : habitational name from Brayley Barton in Devon, which is named with the Bray river (a back formation from High Bray, which is from Celtic brez ‘hill’) + Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
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Jewish (Ashkenazic)
Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metronymic from the Yiddish female personal name brayne (a back formation of the Yiddish female personal name brayndl, which is a diminutive of Yiddish broyn ‘brown’) + the genitive ending -s.English : variant of Brine.
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English
English : habitational name from Cold Brayfield in Buckinghamshire or from Brafield-on-the-Green in Northamptonshire. Both are named with an Old English bragen ‘higher ground’ + feld ‘open country’.
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English
English : habitational name from places in Cumbria and North Yorkshire named Brayton, from Old Scandinavian breithr ‘broad’ or the personal name Breithi + Old English tūn ‘farmstead’.
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Broad Hillside
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English : habitational name from any of various places so named. Gratton in Derbyshire is from Old English grēat ‘great’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. Gratton in High Bray, Devon, is probably ‘great hill’, from Old English grēat + dūn. A number of minor places in Devon are named from the dialect word gratton, gratten ‘stubble-field’.
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Variant spelling of English Braden, BRAYDEN means "salmon."Â
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Broad Hillside
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Australian, Irish
To Cry out; A Hill; Knoll
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English (chiefly West Yorkshire)
English (chiefly West Yorkshire) : variant of Bradshaw.
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v. t. & i.
To pound, pulverize, bray, or mix with a pestle, or as with a pestle; to use a pestle.
v. t.
To pound, beat, rub, or grind small or fine.
v. i.
To utter a loud, harsh cry, as an ass.
v. t.
To exceed in braying.
n.
The harsh cry of an ass; also, any harsh, grating, or discordant sound.
imp. & p. p.
of Bray
n.
An implement for braying and spreading ink in hand printing.
n.
A second raampart, exterior to, and parallel to, the main rampart, and considerably below its level.
v. t.
To make or utter with a loud, discordant, or harsh and grating sound.
n.
A bank; the slope of a hill; a hill. See Brae, which is now the usual spelling.
n.
One that brays like an ass.
v. t.
To break; as in a mortar; to bray, as minerals, roots, etc.; to crush.
n.
An implement for pounding and breaking or braying substances in a mortar.
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An Abyssinian rosaceous tree (Brayera anthelmintica), the flowers of which are used as a vermifuge.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Bray
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A quadruped of the genus Equus (E. asinus), smaller than the horse, and having a peculiarly harsh bray and long ears. The tame or domestic ass is patient, slow, and sure-footed, and has become the type of obstinacy and stupidity. There are several species of wild asses which are swift-footed.
v. i.
To make a harsh, grating, or discordant noise.
a.
Making a harsh noise; blaring.