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brawny, a.|ˈbrɔːnɪ|
Also 6–7 brawney, -ie.
[f. brawn n. + -y1.]
1. Characterized by muscle or muscular strength.
1599Marston Sco. Villanie ii. v. 195 O, brawny strength is an all-canning charme. a1644Quarles Argument in Farr S.P. (1848) 134 Would any strive with Samson for renowne, Whose brawney arme can strike most pillars down? 1741Watts Improv. Mind (1801) 346 Samson and Goliath would have lost..their brawny limbs, in the course of half a century. 1842Longfellow Vill. Blacksmith i, The muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands.
†b. Of a fruit: ? Fleshy. Obs.
c1420Pallad. on Husb. iii. 742 Oxe dounge about her rootes..The pomes sadde and brawny wol it gete.
2. Characterized by hardened skin.
1613Life Will. I in Select. Harl. Misc. (1793) 26 After her death, her knees appeared brawny and hard, with much kneeling at her devotions. a1638Mede Wks. iii. 678 That which is seared, becomes more hard and brawny. 1702Echard Eccl. Hist. (1710) 335 His knees became hard and brawny as a Camels. 1879T. Bryant Prac. Surg. II. 252 The disease appears as a brawny infiltration of the breast.
†3. fig. Callous, hardened, unfeeling. Obs.
1596Bp. Barlow 3 Serm. i. 43 If his heart yarne not, it is brawnie. a1638Mede Apost. Later Times 118 A hard and a brawny Conscience, which hath no feeling in it. a1694Tillotson Serm. clxxv. (1743) IX. 4105 Some men..by sin..bring themselves into a brawny and insensible condition.
4. Comb., chiefly parasynthetic, as brawny-chined, brawny-fisted, brawny-hearted, brawny-limbed, etc.
a1639W. Whately Prototypes ii. xxxiv. (1640) 165 So brawney-hearted, that they would but laugh at Christ himselfe if he should bid them weepe. 1725Pope Odyss. xx. 204 Three porkers for the feast, all brawny-chined, He brought. 1870Daily News 14 Nov., Of all the ladies of Belleville they are..the brawniest-fisted. |