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Bloody; clotted. [Obs. or Prov.] Foamy bubbling of a fleamy brain. Marston.

roud of a vast extent of flimsy lines. Pope. All the flimsy furniture of a country miss's brain. Sheridan.

. Foramen of Monro (Anat.), the opening from each lateral into the third ventricle of the brain. -- Foramen of Winslow (Anat.), the opening connecting the sac of the omentum with the general cavity of the peritoneum.

The front of that part of the head which incloses the brain; that part of the face above the eyes; the brow.

d formed man of the dust of the ground. Gen. ii. 7. The thought that labors in my forming brain. Rowe.

Creative; imaginative. [R.] "The formful brain." Thomson.

sp., two longitudinal bands of white nervous tissue beneath the lateral ventricles of the brain.

Full of gayety and mirth; given to pranks; sportive. Old England, who takes a frolicsome brain fever once every two or three years, for the benefit of her doctors. Sir W. Scott. -- Frol"ic*some*ly, adv. -- Frol"ic*some*ness, n.

Of or pertaining to the forehead or the anterior part of the roof of the brain case; as, the frontal bones.

Where the golden altar fumed. Milton. Silenus lay, Whose constant cups lay fuming to his brain. Roscommon.

The kneelike bend, in the anterior part of the callosum of the brain.

A tumor springing from the neuroglia or connective tissue of the brain, spinal cord, or other portions of the nervous system.

A convoluted ridge between grooves; a convolution; as, the gyri of the brain; the gyri of brain coral. See Brain.

A vascular sac connected, beneath the brain, in many fishes, with the infundibulum.

The brains. [Scot.]

The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the chief sensory organs; poll; cephalon.

The brainpan. [Obs.]

rom which orders or instructions are issued; hence, the center of authority or order. The brain, which is the headquarters, or office, of intelligence. Collier.

e died . . . mourned by a hemisphere. J. P. Peters. ten Cerebral hemispheres. (Anat.) See Brain. -- Magdeburg hemispheres (Physics), two hemispherical cups forming, when placed together, a cavity from which the air can be withdrawn by an air pump; -- used to illustrate the pressure of the air. So called because invent…

through some natural or accidental opening in the walls of the latter; as, hernia of the brain, of the lung, or of the bowels. Hernia of the abdominal viscera in most common. Called also rupture. Strangulated hernia, a hernia so tightly compressed in some part of the channel through which it has been protruded as to a…