'Brawn' definitions:
Definition of 'brawn'
(from WordNet)
noun
Definition of 'Brawn'
From: GCIDE
- Brawn \Brawn\, n. [OF. braon fleshy part, muscle, fr. HG. br?to flesh, G. braten roast meat; akin to Icel. br?? flesh, food of beasts, AS. br?de roast meat, br?dan to roast, G. braten, and possibly to E. breed.]
- 1. A muscle; flesh. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Formed well of brawns and of bones. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- It was ordained that murderers should be brent on the brawn of the left hand. --E. Hall. [1913 Webster]
- And in my vantbrace put this withered brawn. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. 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. --Mortimer. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A boar. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'brawn'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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