Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Brained"
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Brained \Brained\, p.a.
Supplied with brains.
If th' other two be brained like us. --Shak.
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