Definition of brain

"brain" in the noun sense

1. brain, encephalon

that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers enclosed within the skull continuous with the spinal cord

2. brain, brainpower, learning ability, mental capacity, mentality, wit

mental ability

"he's got plenty of brains but no common sense"

3. mind, head, brain, psyche, nous

that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions the seat of the faculty of reason

"his mind wandered"

"I couldn't get his words out of my head"

4. genius, mastermind, brain, brainiac, Einstein

someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality

"Mozart was a child genius"

"he's smart but he's no Einstein"

5. brain

the brain of certain animals used as meat

"brain" in the verb sense

1. brain

hit on the head

2. brain

kill by smashing someone's skull

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Quotations for brain

To give and to have,
Doth a brain crave. [ Proverb ]

Intellect - brain force. [ Schiller ]

The starlight of the brain. [ N. P. Willis ]

The very coinage of your brain. [ William Shakespeare ]

The electric force of the brain. [ Haliburton ]

Memory, the warder of the brain. [ William Shakespeare, Macbeth ]

When I could not sleep for cold,
I had fire enough in my brain,
And builded with roofs of gold,
My beautiful castles in Spain! [ Lowell ]

Books, the children of the brain. [ Swift ]

Authority intoxicates,
And makes mere sots of magistrates;
The fumes of it invade the brain.
And make men giddy, proud and vain;
By this the fool commands the wise;
The noble with the base complies;
The sot assumes the role of wit.
And cowards make the base submit. [ Butler ]

Despair doth strike as deep a furrow
In the brain as mischief or remorse. [ Barry Cornwall ]

To be wroth with one we love,
Doth work like madness in the brain. [ Coleridge ]

Through every fibre of my brain,
Through every nerve, through every vein,
I feel the electric thrill, the touch
Of life, that seems almost too much. [ Henry W. Longfellow ]

True, I talk of dreams.
Which are the children of an idle brain.
Begot of nothing but vain fantasy. [ William Shakespeare ]

Sweet sleep be with us, one and all!
And if upon its stillness fall
The visions of a busy brain.
We'll have our pleasure over again.
To warm the heart, to charm the sight,
Gay dreams to all! good night, good night. [ Joanna Baillie ]

His brain is not big enough for his skull. [ Proverb ]

Better to have the poet's heart than brain. [ George MacDonald ]

A little learning is a dangerous thing:
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again. [ Alexander Pope ]

An idle man's brain is the devil's workshop. [ Bunyan ]

Long is the calm brain active in creation;
Time only strengthens the fine fermentation. [ Goethe ]

Canst thou not minster to a mind diseased;
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow;
Raze out the written troubles of the brain;
And, with some sweet oblivious antidote,
Cleanse the foul bosom of that perilous stuff,
Which weighs upon the heart? [ William Shakespeare ]

With oaths like rivets forced into your brain. [ Cowper ]

If the brain sows not corn it plants thistles. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

With curious art the brain, too finely wrought,
Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought. [ Churchill ]

Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd,
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow,
Raze out the written troubles of the brain?
And with some sweet oblivious antidote,
Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff
Which weighs upon the heart? [ William Shakespeare, Macbeth ]

Those dreams, that on the silent night intrude,
And with false flitting shades our minds delude,
Jove never sends us downward from the skies;
Nor can they from infernal mansions rise;
But are all mere productions of the brain,
And fools consult interpreters in vain. [ Swift ]

To whirl the eyes too much shows a kite's brain. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain. [ Proverb ]

The heart is in motion always, the brain seldom. [ G. D. Prentice ]

The busy brain, that sows not corn, sows thistles. [ Proverb ]

Dreams, which, beneath the hov'ring shades of night.
Sport with the ever-restless minds of men.
Descend not from the gods. Each busy brain
Creates its own. [ Thomas Love Peacock ]

These wickets of the soul are placed so high,
Because all sounds do highly move aloft;
And that they may not pierce too violently,
They are delay'd with turns and twinings oft.
For should the voice directly strike the brain,
It would astonish and confuse it much;
Therefore these plaits and folds the sound restrain,
That it the organ may more gently touch. [ Sir John Davies ]

His learning overbalances his brain, and so is a burden. [ Proverb ]

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others. [ Montaigne ]

Brain is always to be bought, but passion never comes to market. [ Lowell ]

In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so much as brain. [ Lowell ]

This is the very coinage of your brain; This bodiless creation ecstasy. [ William Shakespeare ]

No affections and a great brain; these are the men to command the world. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]

Business and action strengthen the brain, but too much study weakens it. [ Proverb ]

Imagination is the madcap of the brain (the merryandrew of the dwelling). [ Malebranche ]

The nervous fluid in man is consumed by the brain; in women, by the heart. [ Stendhal ]

And scenes, long past, of joy and pain, Came wildering over his aged brain. [ Scott ]

The brain is the citadel of the senses: this guides the principle of thought. [ Pliny the Elder ]

A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? [ William Shakespeare ]

Travel improves superior wine and spoils the poor; it is the same with the brain.

The human brain is the highest bloom of the whole organic metamorphosis of the earth. [ Schelling ]

Humor is the offspring of man; it comes forth like Minerva, fully armed from the brain. [ L'Estrange ]

In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain. [ Lytton ]

The brain women never interest us like the heart women; white roses please less than red. [ Holmes ]

There is no heat of affection but is joined with some idleness of brain, says the Spaniard. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A sublime idea remains the same, from whatever brain or in whatever region it has its birth. [ Menzel ]

Wisdom is not found with those who dwell at their ease; rather nature, when she adds brain, adds difficulty. [ Emerson ]

Humor is the very juice of the mind, oozing from the brain, and enriching and fertilizing wherever it falls. [ Edwin P. Whipple ]

When a strong brain is weighed with a true heart, it seems to me like balancing a bubble against a wedge of gold. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

The nervous fluid in man is consumed by the brain; in woman, by the heart: it is there that they are the most sensitive. [ Stendhal ]

Enthusiasm is founded neither on reason nor divine revelation, but rises from the conceits of a warmed or overweening brain. [ J. Locke ]

Ideas once planted in the brain fructify, and bear their harvest more or less bountiful and rich as they are fertilized by thought. [ Bartol ]

He only is advancing in life whose heart is getting softer, whose blood warmer, whose brain quicker, and whose spirit is entering into living peace. [ John Ruskin ]

Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weak brain giddy. [ Feltham ]

Dreams are the children of an idle brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy; which is as thin of substance as the air, and more inconstant than the wind. [ William Shakespeare ]

Teach self-denial, and make its practice pleasurable, and you create for the world a destiny more sublime than ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer. [ Scott ]

I think a good movie would be about a guy who's a brain scientist, but he gets hit on the head and it damages the part of the brain the makes you want to study the brain. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

It is only in some corner of the brain which we leave empty, that Vice can obtain a lodging. When he knocks at your door, be able to say, No room for your lordship, pass on! [ Edward Bulwer Lytton ]

Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they see, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with. [ Ellen DeGeneres ]

They fix attention, heedless of your pain, With oaths like rivets forced into the brain; And e'en when sober truth prevails throughout, They swear it, till affirmance breeds a doubt. [ Cowper ]

The brain is the palest of all the internal organs, and the heart the reddest. Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and color of its birthplace. [ Holmes ]

The vengeful thought that has root merely in the mind is but a dream of idlest sort which one clear day will dissipate; while revenge, the passion, is a disease of the heart which climbs up, up to the brain, and feeds itself on both alike. [ Lew Wallace ]

What laborious days, what watchings by the midnight lamp, what rackings of the brain, what hopes and fears, what long lives of laborious study, are here sublimized into print, and condensed into the narrow compass of these surrounding shelves! [ Horace Smith ]

Eloquence, to produce her full effect, should start from the head of the orator, as Pallas from the brain of Jove, completely armed and equipped. Diffidence, therefore, which is so able a mentor to the writer, would prove a dangerous counsellor for the orator. [ Colton ]

There is a false gravity that is a very ill symptom: and it may be said, that as rivers, which run very slowly, have always the most mud at the bottom: so a solid stiffness in the constant course of a man's life, is a sign of a thick bed of mud at the bottom of his brain. [ Saville ]

Equality is one of the most consummate scoundrels that ever crept from the brain of a political juggler - a fellow who thrusts his hand into the pocket of honest industry or enterprising talent, and squanders their hardearned profits on profligate idleness or indolent stupidity. [ Paulding ]

The invention of printing added a new element of power to the race. From that hour, in a most especial sense, the brain and not the arm, the thinker and not the soldier, books and not kings, were to rule the world; and weapons, forged in the mind, keen-edged and brighter than the sunbeam, were to supplant the sword and the battle-axe. [ Whipple ]

There are three wicks you know to the lamp of a man's life: brain, blood, and breath. Press the brain a little, its light goes out, followed by both the others. Stop the heart a minute, and out go all three of the wicks. Choke the air out of the lungs, and presently the fluid ceases to supply the other centers of flame, and all is soon stagnation, cold, and darkness. [ O. W. Holmes ]

Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment placing its victim naked on a bed of briars and bristles, thinly covered with rose-leaves, adorning his brow with a crown of gold, which burns into his brain; teasing, and fretting, and riddling him through and through with incessant discharges of hot shot from a masked battery; laying bare the most sensitive and shrinking nerves of his mind, and then blandly touching them with ice, or smilingly pricking them with needles. [ E. P. Whipple ]

Always the idea of unbroken quiet broods around the grave. It is a port where the storms of life never beat, and the forms that have been tossed on its chafing waves lie quiet forever more. There the child nestles as peacefully as ever it lay in its mother's arms, and the workman's hands lie still by his side, and the thinker's brain is pillowed in silent mystery, and the poor girl's broken heart is steeped in a balm that extracts its secret woe, and is in the keeping of a charity that covers all blame. [ Chapin ]

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The word brain is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

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brain + 1 blank (5 words)

Word Growth involving brain

Shorter words in brain

bra

ai rain

in rain

Longer words containing brain

addlebrain

birdbrain birdbrained

birdbrain birdbrains

brainache

braincap braincaps

braincase braincases

braincell braincells

brainchild brainchildren

braindamage braindamaged

braindamage braindamages

braindamaging

braindead braindeads

brained birdbrained

brained featherbrained

brained hairbrained

brained harebrained harebrainedly

brained harebrained harebrainedness

brained lamebrained

brained rattlebrained

brained scatterbrained

brained weakbrained

brainfart brainfarts

brainiac brainiacs

brainier

brainiest

braininess

braining

braininjured

brainless brainlessly

brainless brainlessness

brainlike

brainpan brainpans

brainpower brainpowered

brainpower brainpowering

brainpower brainpowers

brains birdbrains

brains brainstem brainstems

brains brainstorm brainstormed

brains brainstorm brainstormer brainstormers

brains brainstorm brainstorming brainstormings

brains brainstorm brainstorms

brains forebrains

brains harebrains

brains hindbrains

brains lamebrains

brains midbrains

brains rattlebrains

brains scatterbrains

braintease brainteased

braintease brainteaser brainteasers

braintease brainteases

brainteasing

braintissue braintissues

braintumor braintumors

brainwash brainwashed unbrainwashed

brainwash brainwasher brainwashers

brainwash brainwashes

brainwash brainwashing brainwashings

brainwave brainwaves

brainwork brainworker brainworkers

brainworm brainworms

brainy

forebrain forebrains

hairbrain hairbrained

harebrain harebrained harebrainedly

harebrain harebrained harebrainedness

harebrain harebrains

hindbrain hindbrains

lamebrain lamebrained

lamebrain lamebrains

midbrain midbrains

rattlebrain rattlebrained

rattlebrain rattlebrains

scatterbrain scatterbrained

scatterbrain scatterbrains