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- English Word Brail Definition A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing.
- English Word Brail Definition Ropes passing through pulleys, and used to haul in or up the leeches, bottoms, or corners of sails, preparatory to furling.
- English Word Brail Definition A stock at each end of a seine to keep it stretched.
- English Word Brail Definition To haul up by the brails; -- used with up; as, to brail up a sail.
- English Word Brain Definition The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in the cartilaginous or bony cranium of vertebrate animals. It is simply the anterior termination of the spinal cord, and is developed from three embryonic vesicles, whose cavities are connected with the central canal of the cord; the cavities of the vesicles become the central cavities, or ventricles, and the walls thicken unequally and become the three segments, the fore-, mid-, and hind-brain.
- English Word Brain Definition The anterior or cephalic ganglion in insects and other invertebrates.
- English Word Brain Definition The organ or seat of intellect; hence, the understanding.
- English Word Brain Definition The affections; fancy; imagination.
- English Word Brain Definition To dash out the brains of; to kill by beating out the brains. Hence, Fig.: To destroy; to put an end to; to defeat.
- English Word Brain Definition To conceive; to understand.
- English Word Brained Definition of Brain
- English Word Brained Definition Supplied with brains.
- English Word Braining Definition of Brain
- English Word Brainish Definition Hot-headed; furious.
- English Word Brainless Definition Without understanding; silly; thoughtless; witless.
- English Word Brainpan Definition The bones which inclose the brain; the skull; the cranium.
- English Word Brainsick Definition Disordered in the understanding; giddy; thoughtless.
- English Word Brainsickly Definition In a brainsick manner.
- English Word Brainy Definition Having an active or vigorous mind.
- English Word Braise Definition Alt. of Braize