Crossword clues for brainpan
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brainpan \Brain"pan`\, n. [Brain + pan.] The bones which inclose the brain; the skull; the cranium.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context now chiefly North American colloquial English) The skull. (from 10th c.) 2 (context now chiefly North American colloquial English) The brain or mind. (from 17th c.)
WordNet
Usage examples of "brainpan".
Was there any trace of urine or fecal material in the brainpan in this or the other cases?
I considered going after him, lest he freeze up again, somewhere out of sight, and end up baking his brainpan beneath the heat of the broiling midday sun.
Besides, this idea had thunked home in her brainpan with the solid feel of truth.
There was a heavy cooked smell, and the inside of the empty brainpan was boiled-looking.
The brainpan was crushed, a bloody mess, but the face was prominent: a brow ridge, a flat apelike nose, the jaw protruding, big front teeth.
Behind them a shallow brow led to a small, neat brainpan, its modest outline obscured by a thatch of curly dark hair.
Copley, feeling as though his head were filled with hard knobs of spinning granite that crashed with sickening thuds against his brainpan, walked stiffly away to his own quarters.
Then he went along the stiff line of Nazis and leaping in the sun and putting his cleaver through their brainpans, sinking as deep as the eyeballs, cut them down one by one as he made his slow, bloody way to his love.
Each time I pulled my legs up and kicked straight out, trying to strike their snouts or brainpans with my heels without having my feet bitten off.
The giant's face must have been eerily, gnomishly small under the swelling of its brainpan.
The hollowpoint blasted through the sailor's head, emptying his brainpan in a scarlet rush.
Either of those cavernous hairy nostrils could be forcibly modified to accept the steel bit, which would (according to Levon's calculation) extrude well beyond the nasal cavity and into the brainpan.
Even this Place is, after its fashion, a giant brain: its floor is the brainpan, the boundary of the Void is the cortex of gray matter--yes, even the Major and Minor Maintainers are analogues of the pineal and pituitary glands, which in some form sustain all nervous systems.
And its brain went tick-tick-tick-tick within it, and inside its brainpan it measured variations in the vertical component of terrestrial magnetism, and among such measurements it noted the effect of small tugs which came near but did not enter the drydock.