BRAIN

Definitions

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. [Obs.] brain not. Shak.