brain-ˈwood (after 14th c. only Sc.)
[f. brain n. + wood a., OE. and ME. wód mad.]
Frenzied in brain or mind; mad.
| a 1340 Hampole Pr. Consc. 6707 For hungre þai sal be als brayne-wode. c 1375 ? Barbour St. Alexis 214 Ȝouland as half brawne wod. c 1425 Wyntoun Cron. viii. xiii. 51 He swa mankyd, as brayne-wode Kest fast wyth þe Stwmpe þe Blode In-til Willame Walays face. a 1550 Christis Kirke Gr. xxii, Quhyn thay had beirit lyk baitit bullis, And branewod brynt in bails. |