English Dictionary: Brained | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Brained \Brained\, p.a. Supplied with brains. If th' other two be brained like us. --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Brain \Brain\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Brained}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Braining}.] 1. To dash out the brains of; to kill by beating out the brains. Hence, Fig.: To destroy; to put an end to; to defeat. There thou mayst brain him. --Shak. It was the swift celerity of the death . . . That brained my purpose. --Shak. 2. To conceive; to understand. [Obs.] [?]T is still a dream, or else such stuff as madmen Tongue, and brain not. --Shak. |