GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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    Brand , n. [OE. brand, brond, AS. brand brond brand, sword, from byrnan, beornan, to burn; akin to D., Dan., Sw., & G. brand brand, Icel. brandr a brand, blade of a sword. √32.  See Burn, v. t., and cf. Brandish.]
    1. A burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct.
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      Snatching a live brand from a wigwam, Mason threw it on a matted roof.
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    2. A sword, so called from its glittering or flashing brightness. [Poetic]
      Tennyson.

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

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    3. 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.
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    4. A mark put upon criminals with a hot iron. Hence: Any mark of infamy or vice; a stigma.
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      The brand of private vice.
      Channing.

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    5. An instrument to brand with; a branding iron.
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    6. (Bot.) 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 , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Branded; p. pr. & vb. n. Branding.]. 
    1. 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).
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    2. To put an actual distinctive mark upon in any other way, as with a stencil, to show quality of contents, name of manufacture, etc.
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    3. Fig.: To fix a mark of infamy, or a stigma, upon.
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      The Inquisition branded its victims with infamy.
      Prescott.

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

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    4. To mark or impress indelibly, as with a hot iron.
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      As if it were branded on my mind.
      Geo. Eliot.

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