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Muscular might
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brawn
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 13c., from Old French braon "fleshy or muscular part, buttock," from Frankish *brado "ham, roast" or some other Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *bred-on- (cognates: Old High German brato "tender meat," German Braten "roast," Old Norse brað "raw ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. muscular strength [syn: muscle , sinew ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Brawn is the name of several fictional characters from the various Transformers universes . All are tough Autobots who turn into offroad vehicles.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.] A muscle; flesh. [Obs.] Formed well of brawns ...
Usage examples of brawn.
Helva realized her muscles were to be given less of a workout than her brawn on this tedious mission.
The lift ascended and shortly her new brawn was framed in the open lock, against the brilliant Regulan sky.
Falernova Mirsky of Canopus had finished all but a year of brawn training.
A long term of hospitalization and therapy followed, during which time, the tape noted, Kira had asked for and taken medical training but did not reapply for brawn education.
Helva translated, as she was expected to, to mean that Kira Mirsky of Canopus would make an unusually fine brawn if she gave herself half a chance.
That damned biograph left too much unsaid, particularly apparent to a brawn trainee.
Kira had nearly finished brawn training, Helva remembered that factor.
Having enticed the brawn away, they assumed the ship was grounded, impotent, and they could take their time forcing Kira to accede to their designs on the embryos.
Amon sounded so disagreeable that Helva began to wonder just how much the brawn was at fault.
She called the traffic tower to ask for another landing slot, preferably nearer the brawn barracks.
Beta Corvi assignment will require an unusual exercise of diplomacy on the part of both partners, as brain and brawn will be in direct contact with the Corviki throughout the mission.
Well, that obviously lets me out as I have no brawn at the moment, do I?
Helva had to admit Niall Parollan had been demoralizingly accurate about Brawn Teron of Acthion.
By custom and by any other brawn but Teron, the check was left to the brain partner.
Helva continued inexorably, this attack was engineered to overcome brawn and brain simultaneously.