1. brian - Verb
2. Brian - Proper noun
A surname.
A male given name from Irish.
brian (third-person singular simple present brians, present participle brianing, simple past and past participle brianed)
(dialectal, Northern England) To keep fire at the mouth of (as of an oven), to give light or to preserve heat.
With a record of 75 fights and 6 losses, some of the losses were very questionable including Brian Nielsen when we fought in Denmark. I knew I won but they didn't give me that fight. Larry Holmes
I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spoke back stage. The third time was at Brian Wilson's birthday party. Matthew Sweet
Brian Kilmeade: Listen, you can't say he doesn't like white people. David Axelrod's white, Rahm Emanuel's his chief of staff, I think 70% of the people we see every day are white. Robert Gibbs is white- Glenn Beck: I'm not saying that he doesn't like white people, I'm saying he has a problem. Glenn Beck
And I want to congratulate you Brian on your great common sense and decency with which you put your case and I do hope that it is not the end of our discussions about the police. Boris Johnson
Brian Moore: Quickly Kevin, you know him best, will he score? Kevin Keegan: Yes. Kevin Keegan
You're still Brian Duffy. As much as you ever were. But you're Arthur, too, and that kind of outshines everything else. Brandy and water tastes more like brandy than water, after all. Tim Powers