a. [f. BRAIN sb. + -ED2.] Furnished with a brain or brains. Usually with adj. prefix, as addle-, dry-, dull-, feeble-, hot-, nimble-.

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c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 47. Branyd or full of brayne.

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1528.  Paynell, Salerne Regim., F iv b. Feble brayned folkes.

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1610.  Shaks., Temp., III. ii. 7. If th’other two be brain’d like vs, the State totters.

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a. 1704.  T. Brown, Sat. on Quack, Wks. 1730, I. 63. That hot brain’d sot Thy father.

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1819.  Shelley, Peter Bell, VI. xx. A mad-brained goblin for a guide.

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1866.  Motley, Dutch Rep., IV. v. 633. The addle-brained Oberstein.

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