Brainname

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  A surname.

brainnoun/ˈbɹeɪ̯n/

• 1

  The control center of the central nervous system of an animal located in the skull, consisting of the cerebrum, cerebellum, and brainstem, which is responsible for perception, cognition, attention, memory, emotion, and action.

  • The Ueynes are ſpred foorth throughout the whole bodie, howbeit from one welhead, that is to ſay from the Liuer: ſo be the Sinews, howbeit from the Brayne; So likewiſe are the Heartſtrings, howbeit from the Heart.
  • The brain of a calf, sheep, and pig, young and served fresh, is reputedly erotic in its effects.
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  The control center of the central nervous system of an animal located in the skull, consisting of the cerebrum, cerebellum, and brainstem, which is responsible for perception, cognition, attention, memory, emotion, and action.

  • The left brain, or that which supplies and animates the right side of the body, is the most active brain, as a general rule.
  • What is expressed in the lotus, the plumed serpent, or the staff of Osiris is the yogi's knowledge of the three brains of man. The first brain is the reptilian brain of the spinal cord, the brain of instinctive reflexes, the brain of the subconscious.
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  obsoleteThe control center of the central nervous system of an animal located in the skull, consisting of the cerebrum, cerebellum, and brainstem, which is responsible for perception, cognition, attention, memory, emotion, and action.

  • caused the young Princess, the King's only Daughter, to be taken and thrust into a large velvet Sack, and her Brains to be knockt out with great Bars
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  informalMind.

  • I have too much on my brain today.
  • And I should tell him all my pain, / ⁠And how my life had droop’d of late, / ⁠And he should sorrow o’er my state / And marvel what possess’d my brain; […]
• 5

  Intellect.

  • "We provided a lot of brains and a lot of heart to the response when it was needed," says Sandra Sanchez, director of AFSC's Immigrants' Voice Program in Des Moines.
  • She has a lot of brains.
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  informalAn intelligent person.

  • She was a total brain.
  • Peebee: The brains and I are comparing Remnant notes and filling in the blanks.
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  informalAn intelligent person.

  • He is the brains behind the scheme.
• 8

  informalAn intelligent person.

  • Gerald always acts like he doesn't have a brain.

brainverb/ˈbɹeɪ̯n/

• 1

  To dash out the brains of; to kill by smashing the skull.

• 2

  To strike (someone) on the head.

  • Lambdon would require medical attention for a fractured skull. It seemed that Fen had passed his wife a couple of telling pictures, whereupon the drab Mrs. Lambdon had brained her husband with a table lamp.
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  To destroy; to put an end to.

  • There thou maiſt braine him,
  • It was the ſwift celeritie of his death / […] That brain'd my purpoſe:
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  obsoleteTo conceive in the mind; to understand.

  • 'Tis still a dream, or else such stuff as madmen / Tongue, and brain not.
• 5

  To think effectively.

  • My brain isn't braining right now.