brawned, ppl. a.
(brɔːnd)
Also 6 brand.
[f. brawn + -ed.]
1. Well-furnished with muscle; having well-developed arms, thighs, and legs; muscular, brawny.
| c 1505 Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen 429 To see quhat berne is best brand, or bredest in schulderis. 1523 Fitzherb. Husb. §75. 1565 Golding Ovid's Met. viii. (1593) 190 Right dreadful was to see His brawned necke. 1577 B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. (1586) 115 Thies large and well brawned. 1609 Holland Amm. Marcell. xxx. ix. 397 His bodie was well brawned [lacertosus], musculous and strong. |
2. Covered with thickened skin; hardened, callous: chiefly fig. Obs. (at least in fig. sense.)
| 1583 Stanyhurst æneis i. (Arb.) 24 O deere companions..Brawnd with woorse venturs. 1612 T. Taylor Comm. Titus ii. 14. 514 A brawned conscience begets defence of sinne. a 1656 Bp. Hall Sel. Thoughts §63 Not so brawned under the rod that we should not feel it. |
† 3. Fattened as a boar. Obs.
| 1552 Huloet, Brawned, or hard of flesh, lyke a boore. 1583 Golding Calvin on Deut. clxxxi. 1125 They became fatte..and as it were so brawned that they were readie to burst with greace. 1601 Dent Pathw. Heaven 172 Fatting themselues like Boares..till they be well brawned. |