brainpan — English Dictionary

Noun

1. The braincase; the skull.

   Usage

   • Canada
   • US usage
   • Colloquial

   Examples

   Many a time but for a Sallet, my braine-pan had bene cleft with a brown Bill.

   Yet, whether thwart or flatly it did lyte, / The tempred steele did not into his braynepan byte.

   More examples (1)

   Fee, fi, fo, fum, / I smell the blood of a Christian man, / Be he dead, be he living, with my brand, / I’ll dash his brains from his brain-pan.

2. The brain or mind.

   Usage

   • Canada
   • US usage
   • Colloquial

   Examples

   ‘And a hard word it is,’ said Richie, ‘as my brainpan kens to this blessed moment.’

Noun

1. the part of the skull that encloses the brain

   Synonyms

   craniumbraincase

   Broader terms

   boneos