a. [f. BRAIN sb. + -ED2.] Furnished with a brain or brains. Usually with adj. prefix, as addle-, dry-, dull-, feeble-, hot-, nimble-.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 47. Branyd or full of brayne.
1528. Paynell, Salerne Regim., F iv b. Feble brayned folkes.
1610. Shaks., Temp., III. ii. 7. If thother two be braind like vs, the State totters.
a. 1704. T. Brown, Sat. on Quack, Wks. 1730, I. 63. That hot braind sot Thy father.
1819. Shelley, Peter Bell, VI. xx. A mad-brained goblin for a guide.
1866. Motley, Dutch Rep., IV. v. 633. The addle-brained Oberstein.