ppl. a. Also 6 brand. [f. BRAWN + -ED.]

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  1.  Well-furnished with muscle; having well-developed arms, thighs and legs; muscular, brawny.

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c. 1505.  Dunbar, Tua Mariit Wemen, 429. To see quhat berne is best brand, or bredest in schulderis.

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1523.  Fitzherb., Husb., § 75.

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1565.  Golding, Ovid’s Met., VIII. (1593), 190. Right dreadful was to see His brawned necke.

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1577.  B. Googe, Heresbach’s Husb. (1586), 115. Thies large and well brawned.

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1609.  Holland, Amm. Marcell., XXX. ix. 397. His bodie was well brawned [lacertosus], musculous and strong.

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  2.  Covered with thickened skin; hardened, callous: chiefly fig. Obs. (at least in fig. sense.)

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1582.  Stanyhurst, Æneis, I. (Arb.), 24. O deere companions … Brawnd with woorse venturs.

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1612.  T. Taylor, Comm. Titus ii. 14. 514. A brawned conscience begets defence of sinne.

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a. 1656.  Bp. Hall, Sel. Thoughts, § 63. Not so brawned under the rod that we should not feel it.

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  † 3.  Fattened as a boar. Obs.

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1552.  Huloet, Brawned, or hard of flesh, lyke a boore.

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1583.  Golding, Calvin on Deut. clxxxi. 1125. They became fatte … and as it were so brawned that they were readie to burst with greace.

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1601.  Dent, Pathw. Heaven, 172. Fatting themselues like Boares … till they be well brawned.

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