1. That part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centres; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord
   - encephalon 
2. Mental ability
   "he's got plenty of brains but no common sense"
   - brainpower, learning ability, mental capacity, mentality, wit 
3. That which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings; the seat of the faculty of reason
   - mind, head, psyche, nous 
4. Someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality
   - genius, mastermind, brainiac [N. Amer], Einstein, brainbox [Brit] 
5. The brain of certain animals used as meat

1. Hit on the head 
2. Kill by smashing someone's skull

Sounds like: brane

Derived forms: brained, brains, braining

See also: brainy, cerebrospinal, cerebrovascular

Type of: cognition, hit, intellect, intellectual, intelligence, kill, knowledge, neural structure, noesis, organs, variety meat

Part of: caput, central nervous system, CNS, head, systema nervosum centrale

Encyclopedia: Brain Brain, Côte-d'Or

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