BRAIN (2)

brain (2). Brain, v. to knock or take out the brains, ob.

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Brain (�), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Brained (�); p. pr. & vb. n. Braining.] 1. 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. 2. To conceive; to understand.
�T is still a dream, or else such stuff as madmen Tongue, and brain not. Shak.