embrawn

English

Etymology

em- +‎ brawn

Verb

embrawn (third-person singular simple present embrawns, present participle embrawning, simple past and past participle embrawned)

  1. (transitive) To make brawny.
    • 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
      It almost seemed in him, that ere promising forever to protect, as well as eternally to love, his Lucy, he must first completely invigorate and embrawn himself into the possession of such a noble muscular manliness, that he might champion Lucy against the whole physical world.
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