{ } a. Dull-witted; stupid. “The addle-brained Oberstein.” Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dull and addle-pated. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. a. Supplied with brains. [ 1913 Webster ]

If th' other two be brained like us. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Its name is supposed to be derived from the similarity of the effects it gives to those of a picture by Claude Lorrain (often written Lorraine). ] A slightly convex mirror, commonly of black glass, used as a toy for viewing the reflected landscape. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Stupid. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. dense or compact in structure or texture, as a wood composed of small-diameter cells.
Syn. -- fine-grained. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Having a coarse grain or texture, as wood; hence, wanting in refinement. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Giddy; rash. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Marked by constraint; not free; not voluntary; embarrassed; as, a constrained manner; a constrained tone. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By constraint or compulsion; in a constrained manner. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who constrains. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; extremely foolish; crazy; as, crackbrained notions. Pope.
Syn. -- idiotic. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

a. 1. Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely and irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing. [ 1913 Webster ]

If the stuff proves crossgrained, . . . then you must turn your stuff to plane it the contrary way. Moxon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Perverse; untractable; contrary; difficult to deal with.
Syn. -- balky, contrarious. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

She was none of your crossgrained, termagant, scolding jades. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Distrainor. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] (Zool.) The missel thrush. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having lost much energy or emotion from vigorous activity; -- of people; as, the day's events left her completely drained of strength. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. having resources completely depleted.
Syn. -- depleted. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. having no power remaining; -- of a battery.
Syn. -- run-down. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

to go down the drain 1. to be consumed in profitless activity; to be wasted; to become worthless. 2. to vanish or cease existing. [ PJC ]

n. One who, or that which, drains. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Stupid; doltish. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Dull of apprehension. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Giddy; frivolous; lacking seriousness; given to frivolity; feather-headed. [ Colloq. ]
Syn. -- airheaded, dizzy, empty-headed, giddy, lightheaded, light-headed, silly. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. consisting of fine particles.
Syn. -- powdered, powdery, pulverized, small-grained. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. dense or compact in structure or texture, as a wood composed of small-diameter cells.
Syn. -- close-grained. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. involving careful consideration of details and fine distinctions; -- of conceptual schemas; as, fine-grained distinctions.
Syn. -- detailed. [ PJC ]

a. 1. Having a grain; divided into small particles or grains; showing the grain; hence, rough. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Dyed in grain; ingrained. [ 1913 Webster ]

Persons lightly dipped, not grained, in generous honesty, are but pale in goodness. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Painted or stained in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Bot.) Having tubercles or grainlike processes, as the petals or sepals of some flowers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An infusion of pigeon's dung used by tanners to neutralize the effects of lime and give flexibility to skins; -- called also grains and bate. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A knife for taking the hair off skins. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One who paints in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc.; also, the brush or tool used in graining. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Harebrained.

a. Half-bred; imperfect. [ R. ] “A half-strained villain.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Wild; giddy; volatile; heedless. “A mad hare-brained fellow.” North (Plutarch). [ Written also hairbrained. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Ardent in temper; violent; rash; impetuous; as, hot-brained youth. Dryden.

adj. same as housebroken.
Syn. -- housebroken, house-trained. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. same as housebroken.
Syn. -- housebroken, housetrained. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Exhibiting intellectual or personality characteristics suggesting dominance of linguistic or logical modes of thought, which are usually controlled by the left cerebral hemisphere; as, left-brained pedants unable to appreciate music; also referred to as linear. See linear{ 3 }. Contrasted with right-brained. [ PJC ]

a. Disordered in mind; hot-headed. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. migraine, LL. hemigrania, L. hemicrania, hemicranium, Gr. "hmikrani`a; "hmi- half + krani`on skull. See Hemi- and Cranium, and cf. Hemicrania, Migraine. ] 1. A kind of intense sick or nervous headache, usually periodical and confined to one side of the head; called also migraine headache. Same as megrim. -- Mi*grain"ous, a. [1913 Webster]

n. [ F. Cf. Prov. G. mur stones broken off, It. mora a heap of stones, hillock, G. mürbe soft, broken up, OHG. muruwi, AS. mearu tender, Gr. &unr_; to cause to wither, Skr. mlā to relax. ] (Geol.) An accumulation of earth and stones carried forward and deposited by a glacier. Lyell. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ If the moraine is at the extremity of the glacier it is a terminal moraine; if at the side, a lateral moraine; if parallel to the side on the central portion of the glacier, a medial moraine. See Illust. of Glacier. In the last case it is formed by the union of the lateral moraines of the branches of the glacier. A ground moraine is one beneath the mass of ice. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Giddy; rattle-headed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who distrains again. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who refrains. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With restraint. Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, restrains. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a rough grain or fiber; hence, figuratively, having coarse traits of character; not polished; brisque. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Giddy; thoughtless. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Restrained by one's self or itself; restrained by one's own power or will. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Weak in intellect; foolish; empty-headed. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Disordered or wandering in intellect; hence, heedless; wild; similar to scatter-brained. J. Goodman. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

a. Disordered in the brain. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Subjected to great or excessive tension; wrenched; weakened; as, strained relations between old friends. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Done or produced with straining or excessive effort; as, his wit was strained. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who strains. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That through which any liquid is passed for purification or to separate it from solid matter; anything, as a screen or a cloth, used to strain a liquid; a device of the character of a sieve or of a filter; specifically, an openwork or perforated screen, as for the end of the suction pipe of a pump, to prevent large solid bodies from entering with a liquid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. ] A dragnet. [ Obs. ] Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who trains; an instructor; especially, one who trains or prepares men, horses, etc., for exercises requiring physical agility and strength. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A militiaman when called out for exercise or discipline. [ U. S. ] Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. un- not + strain. ] 1. Not strained; not cleared or purified by straining; as, unstrained oil or milk. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not forced; easy; natural; as, a unstrained deduction or inference. Hakewill. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Not trained. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not trainable; indocile. [ Obs. ] Herbert. [ 1913 Webster ]