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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Brain v. t. [imp. & p. p. Brained p. pr. & vb. n. Braining.]
 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.
    There thou mayst brain him.   --Shak.
 It was the swift celerity of the death . . .
 That brained my purpose.   --Shak.
 2. To conceive; to understand. [Obs.]
 'T is still a dream, or else such stuff as madmen
 Tongue, and brain not.   --Shak.