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Brawn

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Noun

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Brawn has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

Brawnn. [OF. braon fleshy part, muscle, fr. HG. brto flesh, G. braten roast meat; akin to Icel. br flesh, food of beasts, AS. brde roast meat, brdan to roast, G. braten, and possibly to E. breed.].
  •  A muscle; flesh.  [1913 Webster]
    "Formed well of brawns and of bones."  [1913 Webster]
  •  Full, strong muscles, esp. of the arm or leg, muscular strength; a protuberant muscular part of the body; sometimes, the arm.  [1913 Webster]
    "Brawn without brains is thine."  [1913 Webster]
    "It was ordained that murderers should be brent on the brawn of the left hand."  [1913 Webster]
    "And in my vantbrace put this withered brawn."  [1913 Webster]
  •  The flesh of a boar; also, the salted and prepared flesh of a boar.  [1913 Webster]
    "The best age for the boar is from two to five years, at which time it is best to geld him, or sell him for brawn."  [1913 Webster]
  •  A boar.  Beau. & Fl.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Brawn, n.
1 muscular strength.
2 muscle; lean flesh.
3 Brit. a jellied preparation of the chopped meat from a boiled pig's head.

Etymology
ME f. AF braun, OF braon f. Gmc

THESAURUS

Brawn

all that lives, beef, beefiness, biosphere, biota, brawniness, ecosphere, elasticity, fiber, flesh, flora and fauna, heftiness, huskiness, involuntary muscle, living matter, living nature, might, muscle, muscles, muscularity, musculature, noosphere, organic matter, organic nature, organized matter, physique, plasm, power, robustness, sinew, sinewiness, sinews, strength, thew, thewiness, thews, tissue, tone, voluntary muscle
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