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BRAND, n.

1. A burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct.

2. A sword, either from brandishing, or from its glittering brightness; now obsolete,unless in poetry.

3. A thunder-bolt.

4. A mark made by burning with a hot iron, as upon a criminal, or upon a cask; a stigma; any note of infamy.

BRAND, v.t. To burn or impress a mark with a hot iron; as, to brand a criminal, by way of punishment; or to brand a cask or any thing else, for the purpose of fixing a mark upon it.

1. To fix a mark or character of infamy, in allusion to the branding of criminals; to stigmatize as infamous; as, to brand a vice with infamy.



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BRAND, n.

1. A burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct.

2. A sword, either from brandishing, or from its glittering brightness; now obsolete,unless in poetry.

3. A thunder-bolt.

4. A mark made by burning with a hot iron, as upon a criminal, or upon a cask; a stigma; any note of infamy.

BRAND, v.t. To burn or impress a mark with a hot iron; as, to brand a criminal, by way of punishment; or to brand a cask or any thing else, for the purpose of fixing a mark upon it.

1. To fix a mark or character of infamy, in allusion to the branding of criminals; to stigmatize as infamous; as, to brand a vice with infamy.

BRAND, n. [Sax. brand; D. brand; G. brand; Dan. brænde; Sw. brand; from bränna, brennen, to burn. See Burn.]

  1. A burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct.
  2. A sword, either from brandishing, Fr. brandir, or from its glittering brightness; now obsolete, unless in poetry. – Milton.
  3. A thunder-bolt. – Granville.
  4. A mark made by burning with a hot iron, as upon a criminal, or upon a cask; a stigma; any note of infamy. – Bacon. Dryden.

BRAND, v.t.

  1. To burn or impress a mark with a hot iron; as, to brand a criminal, by way of punishment; or to brand a cask or any thing else, for the purpose of fixing a mark upon it.
  2. To fix a mark or character of infamy, in allusion to the branding of criminals; to stigmatize as infamous; as, to brand a vice with infamy. – Rowe. Addison.

Brand
  1. A burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct.

    Snatching a live brand from a wigwam, Mason threw it on a matted roof.
    Palfrey.

  2. To burn a distinctive mark into or upon with a hot iron, to indicate quality, ownership, etc., or to mark as infamous (as a convict).
  3. A sword, so called from its glittering or flashing brightness.

    [Poetic] Tennyson.

    Paradise, so late their happy seat,
    Waved over by that flaming brand.
    Milton.

  4. To put an actual distinctive mark upon in any other way, as with a stencil, to show quality of contents, name of manufacture, etc.
  5. A mark made by burning with a hot iron, as upon a cask, to designate the quality, manufacturer, etc., of the contents, or upon an animal, to designate ownership; -- also, a mark for a similar purpose made in any other way, as with a stencil. Hence, figurately: Quality; kind; grade; as, a good brand of flour.
  6. Fig.: To fix a mark of infamy, or a stigma, upon.

    The Inquisition branded its victims with infamy.
    Prescott.

    There were the enormities, branded and condemned by the first and most natural verdict of common humanity.
    South.

  7. A mark put upon criminals with a hot iron. Hence: Any mark of infamy or vice; a stigma.

    The brand of private vice.
    Channing.

  8. To mark or impress indelibly, as with a hot iron.

    As if it were branded on my mind.
    Geo. Eliot.

  9. An instrument to brand with; a branding iron.
  10. Any minute fungus which produces a burnt appearance in plants. The brands are of many species and several genera of the order Pucciniæi.
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Brand

BRAND, noun

1. A burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct.

2. A sword, either from brandishing, or from its glittering brightness; now obsolete, unless in poetry.

3. A thunder-bolt.

4. A mark made by burning with a hot iron, as upon a criminal, or upon a cask; a stigma; any note of infamy.

BRAND, verb transitive To burn or impress a mark with a hot iron; as, to brand a criminal, by way of punishment; or to brand a cask or any thing else, for the purpose of fixing a mark upon it.

1. To fix a mark or character of infamy, in allusion to the branding of criminals; to stigmatize as infamous; as, to brand a vice with infamy.

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