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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Brained \Brained\, p. a.
     Supplied with brains.
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           If th' other two be brained like us.     --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Brain \Brain\ (br[=a]n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Brained}
     (br[=a]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Braining}.]
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     1. To dash out the brains of; to kill by beating out the
        brains. Hence, Fig.: To destroy; to put an end to; to
        defeat.
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              There thou mayst brain him.           --Shak.
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              It was the swift celerity of the death . . .
              That brained my purpose.              --Shak.
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     2. To conceive; to understand. [Obs.]
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              'T is still a dream, or else such stuff as madmen
              Tongue, and brain not.                --Shak.
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