Part 1357

<h1>Brawl</h1> <Xpage=176>

<hw>Brawl</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Brawled</er> <tt>(#)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Brawling</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>braulen</ets> to quarrel, boast, <ets>brallen</ets> to cry, make a noise; cf. LG. <ets>brallen</ets> to brag, MHG. <ets>pr</ets><?/<ets>ulen</ets>, G. <ets>prahlen</ets>, F. <ets>brailler</ets> to cry, shout, Pr. <ets>brailar</ets>, <ets>braillar</ets>, W. <ets>bragal</ets> to vociferate, brag, Armor. <ets>bragal</ets> to romp, to strut, W. <ets>broliaw</ets> to brag, <ets>brawl</ets> boast. <?/95.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To quarrel noisily and outrageously.</def>

<blockquote>Let a man that is a man consider that he is a fool that <b>brawleth</b> openly with his wife. <i>Golden Boke.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To complain loudly; to scold.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To make a loud confused noise, as the water of a rapid stream running over stones.</def>

<blockquote>Where the brook <b>brawls</b> along the painful road. <i>Wordsworth.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- To wrangle; squabble; contend.</syn>

<h1>Brawl</h1> <Xpage=176>

<hw>Brawl</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A noisy quarrel; loud, angry contention; a wrangle; a tumult; <as>as, a drunken <ex>brawl</ex></as>.</def>

<blockquote>His sports were hindered by the <b>brawls</b>. <i>Shak</i></blockquote>.

<syn>Syn. -- Noise; quarrel; uproar; row; tumult.</syn>

<h1>Brawler</h1> <Xpage=176>

<hw>Brawl"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One that brawls; wrangler.</def>

<cs><col>Common brawler</col> <fld>(Law)</fld>, <cd>one who disturbs a neighborhood by brawling (and is therefore indictable at common law as a nuisance).</cd></cs>

<i>Wharton.</i>

<h1>Brawling</h1> <Xpage=176>

<hw>Brawl"ing</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Quarreling; quarrelsome; noisy.</def>

<blockquote>She is an irksome <b>brawling</b> scold. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Making a loud confused noise. See <er>Brawl</er>, <i>v. i.</i>, 3.</def>

<blockquote>A <b>brawling</b> stream. <i>J. S. Shairp.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Brawlingly</h1> <Xpage=176>

<hw>Brawl"ing*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a brawling manner.</def>

<h1>Brawn</h1> <Xpage=176>

<hw>Brawn</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>braon</ets> fleshy part, muscle, fr. HG. <ets>br<?/to</ets> flesh, G. <ets>braten</ets> roast meat; akin to Icel. <ets>br<?/<?/</ets> flesh, food of beasts, AS. <ets>br</ets><?/de roast meat, <ets>br<?/dan</ets> to roast, G. <ets>braten</ets>, and possibly to E. <ets>breed</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A muscle; flesh.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Formed well of <b>brawns</b> and of bones. <i>Chaucer.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Full, strong muscles, esp. of the arm or leg, muscular strength; a protuberant muscular part of the body; sometimes, the arm.</def>

<blockquote><b>Brawn</b> without brains is thine. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>It was ordained that murderers should be brent on the <b>brawn</b> of the left hand. <i>E. Hall.</i></blockquote>