meaning of brand
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, so called from its glittering or flashing brightness.
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.
4. A mark put upon criminals with a hot iron. Hence: Any mark of infamy or vice; a stigma.
5. An instrument to brand with; a branding iron.
6. Any minute fungus which produces a burnt appearance in plants. The brands are of many species and several genera of the order Pucciniaei.
7. 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).
8. To put an actual distinctive mark upon in any other way, as with a stencil, to show quality of contents, name of manufacture, etc.
9. Fig. : To fix a mark of infamy, or a stigma, upon.
10. To mark or impress indelibly, as with a hot iron.
11. A branding iron.
12. A trivet to set a pot on.
13. The horizontal bar of an andiron.
14. A species of wild goose (Branta bernicla) usually called in America brant. See Brant.
15. One of several spores growing in a series or chain, and produced by one of the fungi called brand.
Related Words
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