Middle English Dictionary Entry
brai n.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | brai n.(1) Also brait. |
| Etymology | OF brait |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
An outcry, a shriek,
Associated quotations
- c1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)2171 : So gret bray, so gret crieyng, For þe folk þere was dyeyng.
- a1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)216 : He turned to flight, and caste a grete brayt and an orible.
- a1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)300 : Whan the lady vndirstode the brayes and the cries that the bretheren made a-boute hir, she opened hir iyen and saugh hir sone Gawein.