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Well-dressed; handsome; smart; brave; -- used of persons or their clothing, etc.; as, a braw lad. "A braw new gown." Burns.

quarrel noisily and outrageously. Let a man that is a man consider that he is a fool that brawleth openly with his wife. Golden Boke.

One that brawls; wrangler. Common brawler (Law), one who disturbs a neighborhood by brawling (and is therefore indictable at common law as a nuisance). Wharton.

Quarreling; quarrelsome; noisy. She is an irksome brawling scold. Shak.

In a brawling manner.

A muscle; flesh. [Obs.] Formed well of brawns and of bones. Chaucer.

Brawny; strong; muscular. [Obs.] Spenser.

A boor killed for the table.

The quality or state of being brawny.

Having large, strong muscles; muscular; fleshy; strong. "Brawny limbs." W. Irving.

To harden. [Obs.] It will embrawn and iron-crust his flesh. Nash.

A kind of cabinet wood having beautiful black, brown, and whitish stripes, the timber of a tropical American tree (Connarus Guianensis).

A tumultuous assault or quarrel; a brawl; a fray. "In the very midst of the affray." Motley.

us tree of Brazil (Centrolobium robustum) having handsomely striped wood; --called also zebrawood.

In a tumid, swelling, blustering manner; haughtily; violently. He brawleth bigly. Robynson (More's Utopia. )

Bellowing, as a calf; bawling; brawling; clamoring; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly. "Harsh and blatant tone." R. H. Dana. A monster, which the blatant beast men call. Spenser. Glory, that blatant word, which haunts some military minds like the bray of the trumpet. W. Irving.

A muscle that bends a limb, esp. the arm. [Obs.] His rawbone arms, whose mighty brawned bowers Were wont to rive steel plates and helmets hew. Spenser. Best bower, Small bower. See the Note under Anchor.

A brawl or dance. [Obs.] Spenser.

A tumult; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance; a brawl; contention; discord, either between individuals or in the state. I will own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please. Burke.

or play to; to worship; as, to call upon God. -- To call out To call or utter loudly; to brawl.