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Supplied with brains. If th' other two be brained like us. Shak.

Dull-witted; stupid. "The addle-brained Oberstein." Motley. Dull and addle-pated. Dryden.

Stupid. [Obs.] Shak.

Giddy; rash. Milton.

Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; crazy. Pope.

Stupid; doltish. Shak.

Dull of apprehension.

Giddy; frivolous; feather-headed. [Colloq.]

See Harebrained.

Wild; giddy; volatile; heedless. "A mad hare-brained fellow." North (Plutarch). [Written also hairbrained.]

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

Disordered in mind; hot-headed. Shak.

Giddy; rattle-headed.

Giddy; thoughtless.

Weak in intellect; foolish; empty-headed. South.

Disordered or wandering in intellect; hence, heedless; wild. J. Goodman.

Disordered in the brain.

Snatched away; seized or possessed, as a demoniac; raving; mad; crack-brained. [Obs.] Odd, arreptitious, frantic extravagances. Howell.

r uneasy. B. Jonson. (c) To be full of fancies; to be a little crazy. "She's whiles crack-brained, and has a bee in her head." Sir W. Scott.

feat. There thou mayst brain him. Shak. It was the swift celerity of the death . . . That brained my purpose. Shak.