Formed well of brawns and of bones. --Chaucer.
2. Full, strong muscles, esp. of the arm or leg, muscular
strength; a protuberant muscular part of the body;
sometimes, the arm.
Brawn without brains is thine. --Dryden.
It was ordained that murderers should be brent on
the brawn of the left hand. --E. Hall.
And in my vantbrace put this withered brawn. --Shak.
3. The flesh of a boar; also, the salted and prepared flesh
of a boar.
The best age for the boar is from two to five years,
at which time it is best to geld him, or sell him
for brawn. --Mortimer.
4. A boar. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl.