Brawn
[brɔːn] or [brɔn]
Definition
(n.) A muscle; flesh.
(n.) Full, strong muscles, esp. of the arm or leg, muscular strength; a protuberant muscular part of the body; sometimes, the arm.
(n.) The flesh of a boar; also, the salted and prepared flesh of a boar.
(n.) A boar.
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Definition
n. muscle esp. of the arm or calf of the leg: thick flesh: muscular strength: a boar: a preparation of meat made from pig's head and ox-feet cut up boiled and pickled.—adj. Brawned.—n. Brawn′iness quality of being brawny: muscularity.—adj. Brawn′y fleshy: muscular: strong.
Typist: Lolita
Examples
- Let him seek here the mighty brawn, the muscle, the abounding blood, the full-fed flesh he worshipped: let all materialists draw nigh and look on. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Perfectly cowed by the breadth, the height, the bone, and the brawn of Mrs. Horsfall, they retreated to the back parlour. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- In the olden days the wage of battle was almost universally decided by the strength of brawn, and the higher qualities of mind were subservient. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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