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tupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially. Epicurus seems to have had brains so muddled and confounded, that he scarce ever kept in the right way. Bentley. Often drunk, always muddled. Arbuthnot.

The brain and spinal cord; the cerebro-spinal axis; the neuron. Sometimes abbreviated to myelencephal.

One of a group of phosphorized principles occurring in nerve tissue, both in the brain and nerve fibers.

The two anterior of the four lobes on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals; the anterior optic lobes.

nsation and volition. In vertebrates it is often divided into three systems: the central, brain and spinal cord; the peripheral, cranial and spinal nerves; and the sympathetic. See Brain, Nerve, Spinal cord, under Spinal, and Sympathetic system, under Sympathetic, and Illust. in Appendix. -- Nervous temperament, a con…

The central canal and ventricles of the spinal cord and brain; the myelencephalic cavity.

te connective tissue framework which supports the nervous matter and blood vessels of the brain and spinal cord.

The brain and spinal cord; the cerebro-spinal axis; myelencephalon. B. G. Wilder.

se which affect the spinal cord. (c) Cerebro-spinal neurotics, or those which affect both brain and spinal cord.

nds, that which is left; remnants; fragments; refuse; scraps; miscellaneous articles. "My brain is filled...with all kinds of odds and ends." W. Irving.

es (the first pair of cranial nerves) which are distributed to the retina. See Illust. of Brain, and Eye.

The cavity of one of the optic lobes of the brain in many animals. B. G. Wilder.

One who overweens. [R.] The conceits of warmed or overweening brain. Locke.

Inflammation of the dura mater or outer membrane of the brain.

The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the upper part of the head; the brainpan; the cranium. Chaucer.

The brainpan, or skull; hence, the crest. [Obs.] Spenser.

A band of nervous or fibrous matter connecting different parts of the brain; as, the peduncles of the cerebellum; the peduncles of the pineal gland.

Inflammation of the brain, or of the meninges of the brain, attended with acute fever and delirium; -- called also cephalitis.

The science of the special functions of the several parts of the brain, or of the supposed connection between the various faculties of the mind and particular organs in the brain.

The power of exciting the organs of the brain by magnetic or mesmeric influence.