2. Noun. (plurale tantum informal) Intelligence; aptitude; mental capability. ¹
3. Noun. (plurale tantum) The brain of one or more animals used as food. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Brains
1. brain [v] - See also: brain
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brains
Literary usage of Brains
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1898)
"On the brains of two Sub-Fossil Malagasy ... For comparison with the brains of
living ... brains ..."
2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1914)
"NORMAL LOOKING brains IX PSYCHOPATHIC SUBJECTS SECOND NOTE (WESTBOROUGH STATE
HOSPITAL ... A series of Normal-looking brains in Psychopathic Subjects. ..."
3. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"THE ASS'S brains THE Lion and the Fox went hunting together. The Lion, on the
advice of the Fox, sent a message to the Ass, proposing to make an alliance ..."
4. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1911)
"A few of these brains had been previously investigated in a general way by Waldeyer
in 1906. ... The weights of the fresh brains range from 1146 to 1470 gr. ..."
5. The Connecticut Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly by William Farrand Felch, George C. Atwell, H. Phelps Arms, Frances Trevelyan Miller (1905)
"And the examination of the brains of these notable men, possessing large capacity
for doing and thinking much more than their fellows, shows the converse to ..."
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