embrawn

To make (someone or something) brawny.

Verb

  1. To make (someone or something) brawny.
    • Embravvne your ſoft-skind encloſure vvith Adamantine duſt, that it may dravve nothing but ſteele vnto it. - 1593, Tho[mas] Nashe, Christs Teares Over Ierusalem. […], London: […] Iames Roberts, and are to be solde by...
    • 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,...

Origin

From em- + brawn.

Forms

embrawns embrawning embrawned