hot-brainn.

?1551 H. Wingfield Compend. or Shorte Treat. vi. sig. Cvii^v The second is corruption of the braynes complection. It doeth dispose a hote braine to a woodnes & fransie, the cold to the falling euyl, forgetfulnes and palsey.]

1605 Famous Hist. Capt. Stukeley sig. J This English hot-braine.

1609 Bp. W. Barlow Answer Catholike English-man 30 Hot braines as they vndertake matters busilie, so they performe nothing soundly or iudiciously.

1625 T. Jackson Treat. Originall of Vnbeliefe v. v. §6 A practicall head skillfull in humoring such an hot braine.

1684 J. Dryden Intended Epil. Calisto in Misc. Poems 328 Peace, the loath'd Manna, which hot brains despise.

1827 G. Darley Sylvia 29 He is all unversed In these wild paths, and is a hot-brain, too.

1884 W. Besant Dorothy Forster I. vi. 157 He is young and ardent; he will gather round him, no doubt, all the hot-brains and hair-brains of the county.

1910 P. E. More Shelburne Ess. 7th Ser. 111 It is mere wantonness, as some hot brains have done, to place Morris's work above, or even beside, that of Homer.

1993 Scotl. on Sunday (Nexis) 9 May The Dalai Lama has himself expressed concern that his influence over the ‘hotbrains’ at home may be slipping.