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OE Aldhelm Glosses (Digby 146) in A. S. Napier Old Eng. Glosses (1900) 76/1 Cerebri : brægenpanne [OE Brussels 1650 brægpanne].

a1333 Gloss. W. de Bibbesworth (BL Add.) f. 2 v/1 Il i a ausi moun hanapel [glossed] braynpenne.

a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 107 Þe brayn panne is maad of manye boonys.

?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 154 The Brayn panne of a ded man.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Judges ix. 53 A woman cast a pece of a mylstone..and brake his brane panne.

1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie xliii. 134 And then the heade is cabaged [i.e.] cut close by the hornes through the braine pan.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iv. ix. 8 Many a time but for a Sallet, my braine-pan had bene cleft with a brown Bill. View more context for this quotation

1656 tr. J. A. Comenius Latinæ Linguæ Janua Reserata: Gate Lat. Tongue Unlocked xxii. §216 The Brain-pan..is as it were sowed together of many bones comb-wise.

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 167. ⁋3 To settle my Head and cool my Brain-pan.

?1785 S. Freeman Ladies Friend (ed. 3) 12 From the brain cometh two sinews to the holes of the brain pan..and these two are the proper organs, or instruments of smelling.

1834 Amer. Ann. Educ. & Instr. Mar. 142 One of the most important bones of the skull or brain-pan, is that which stretches across the whole forehead, and is called the os frontis, or frontal bone.

1872 C. Hardwick Trad., Superstitions, & Folk-lore 205 The skull of a fossil elephant..commonly believed to be the brain-pan of an enormous giant.

1991 Midnight Zoo 1 v. 77/2 Riley lifted the shotgun and redecorated the hallway with the insides of fat boy's brainpan.

2004 N.Y. Times Mag. 2 May 78/1 Primeval skulls with prognathous jaws and small brainpans came to be identified as ancestors of man.

a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) ii. 117 It is a starveling conceit of Innovating brain-pans.

1656 T. Morton Lords Supper (ed. 2) 495 I shal..distinguish the office of his..eyes, whereby hee apprehendeth onely words, from the Function of his Brain-pan, in judging of their sense and signification.

1693 Oxford-act i. 7 A Full and True Relation..In this own fruitful Brain-pan minted.

1797 E. Nairne Dog-tax 3 She–(God bless her brain-pan) really thought That pigs..Could get a living, merely of themselves.

1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. xi. 187 ‘And a hard word it is,’ said Richie, ‘as my brainpan kens to this blessed moment.’

1879 Scribner's Monthly Feb. 471/1 Pacing this rural street ‘with his head down, so’, its brain-pan revolving thoughts of past tinsel glories.

1919 I. Zangwill Jinny the Carrier 176 Them as is powerful enough to carry boxes from Chipstone ain't allus bright in the brain-pan.

1975 J. McCourt Mawrdew Czgowchwz vi. 177 Aesthetic notions danced across his brainpan.

2005 Hotdog June 86/3 The last big space invasion movie, Independence Day, offered..images of Earthly destruction that still resonate in moviegoers' brainpans nine years after we first saw them.