The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brain \Brain\ (br[=a]n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Brained (br[=a]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Braining.]
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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.
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To conceive; to understand. [Obs.]
'T is still a dream, or else such stuff as madmen Tongue, and brain not.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of brain English)
Usage examples of "braining".
What I needed now was the chance to hit Tavie without braining some other fool who got in the way, and preferably before he caught up with Glane.
His metal arms—all four of them—could have scythed through the throng, braining the lot of them without so much as raising a sweat.
It was what some Flemish burgher said to Robert of Artois, brother-in-law to King Philip of France, before braining the Count with a club at the battle of Courtrai.
Penari, thoroughly exasperated by now, snatched up the large translucent rock he used for a paperweight and threw it, nearly braining them both.
Even distinguished himself on the ramparts of Borgo, braining four Janissaries with his lute before someone handed him a sword.