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ˈmadbrain, n. (and a.)
A. n. A mad-brained person; a ‘scatter-brain’.
c1570Marr. Wit & Sci. v. i. E 1 b, Thou art some mad braine, or some foole. 1608Middleton Mad World i. A 3 Heer's a mad-braine a'th first, whose prankes scorne to haue presidents. 1616J. Deacon Tobacco Tortured 57 Alas poore Tobacco..thou that hast bene hitherto accompted..the mad-braines merriment,..and the vnthrifts pasport. 1876G. Meredith Beauch. Career II. xvi. 285 He began to think her lost beyond hope, embarked for good and all with the madbrain.
†B. attrib. or adj. = mad-brained. Obs.
1592G. Harvey Four Lett. 45, I haue..seene the mad⁓braynest Roister-doister in a countrey dashte out of countenaunce. 1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. iii. ii. 10, I must forsooth be forst To give my hand..Vnto a mad-braine rudesby. 1605Rowlands Hell's Broke Loose 33 With..mad-braine heat, Munster they enter. 1631Weever Anc. Funeral Mon. 295 That wilde madbraine Falques. |