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noun

Brawn n.

A muscle; flesh. (Obs.) "Formed well of brawns and of bones."

Full, strong muscles, esp. of the arm or leg, muscular strength; a protuberant muscular part of the body; sometimes, the arm. "Brawn without brains is thine." "It was ordained that murderers should be brent on the brawn of the left hand." "And in my vantbrace put this withered brawn."

The flesh of a boar; also, the salted and prepared flesh of a boar. "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."

A boar. (Obs.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Brawn" Quotes from Famous Books

... between using brains or brawn as cannon-fodder," he used to say. "I'm serving with my brain ...

— The Moon out of Reach • Margaret Pedler

... held leadership, if I was to hold it at all, by virtue of personal qualifications only, but I did not doubt my ability to remain the director of our destinies in so far as they were amenable to human agencies. I have always led. While my brain and brawn remain unimpaired I shall continue always to lead. Following is an art which ...

— The Lost Continent • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... of clashing with an opposing force had always filled him with a sensation of indefinable exultation. He reveled in the primitive passions. He had been endowed by nature with those mental and physical qualities that combine to produce the perfect fighter. He was six feet of brawn and muscle; not an ounce of superfluous flesh encumbered him—he had been hammered and hardened into a state of physical perfection by several years of athletic training, sensible living, and good, hard, healthy labor. Circumstances had not permitted him ...

— The Coming of the Law • Charles Alden Seltzer

... had been scattered there; and such a mighty blaze went roaring up the chimney as that dull petrifaction of a hearth had never known in Scrooge's time, or Marley's, or for many and many a winter season gone. Heaped up on the floor, to form a kind of throne, were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking-pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince-pies, plum-puddings, barrels of oysters, red-hot chestnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy oranges, luscious pears, immense twelfth-cakes, ...

— A Christmas Carol • Charles Dickens

... quality than plain grain; some of them not so much. The notion that bran has remarkable food value is a delusion; it actually makes the protein of the grain less digestible. As for mineral matter, 'to build up bone and teeth and brawn,' there is enough of it in almost any mixed diet, without swallowing ...

— Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts • Girl Scouts

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