brain

Forms

1.The control center of the central nervous system of an animal located in the skull which is responsible for perception, cognition, attention, memory, emotion, and action.
- The brain of a calf, sheep, and pig, young and served fresh, is reputedly erotic in its effects.
- The left brain, or that which supplies and animates the right side of the body, is the most active brain, as a general rule.
2.Mind.(informal)
- I have too much on my brain today.
3.Intellect.
- She has a lot of brains.
- "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.
4.An intelligent person.(informal)
- He is the brains behind the scheme.
- Gerald always acts like he doesn't have a brain.
- Peebee: The brains and I are comparing Remnant notes and filling in the blanks.

1.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.
2.To destroy; to put an end to.
- He was going on with some wild reminiscences about his tomahawk-pipe, which, it seemed, had in its two uses both brained his foes and soothed his soul, when we were directly attracted to the sleeping rigger.
3.To think effectively.(humorous)
- My brain isn't braining right now.
4.To dash out the brains of; to kill by smashing the skull.

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Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *mregʰ-

Proto-Indo-European *-n̥

Proto-Indo-European *mrógʰ-n̥ ~ *mrégʰ-n̥-s

Proto-Germanic *bragną

Proto-West Germanic *bragn

Old English bræġn

Middle English brayn

English brain