Brand
[brænd]
Definition
(noun.) a recognizable kind; 'there's a new brand of hero in the movies now'; 'what make of car is that?'.
(noun.) identification mark on skin, made by burning.
(noun.) a piece of wood that has been burned or is burning.
(verb.) mark with a brand or trademark; 'when this product is not branded it sells for a lower price'.
(verb.) burn with a branding iron to indicate ownership; of animals.
Editor: Stu--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) A burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct.
(v. t.) A sword, so called from its glittering or flashing brightness.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) A mark put upon criminals with a hot iron. Hence: Any mark of infamy or vice; a stigma.
(v. t.) An instrument to brand with; a branding iron.
(v. t.) Any minute fungus which produces a burnt appearance in plants. The brands are of many species and several genera of the order Pucciniaei.
(v. t.) 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).
(v. t.) To put an actual distinctive mark upon in any other way, as with a stencil, to show quality of contents, name of manufacture, etc.
(v. t.) Fig.: To fix a mark of infamy, or a stigma, upon.
(v. t.) To mark or impress indelibly, as with a hot iron.
Checker: Ophelia
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Fire-brand.[2]. Mark (of a hot iron).[3]. Kind, quality.[4]. Stigma, stain, reproach.[5]. [Poetical.] Sword.
v. a. [1]. Mark (with a hot iron).[2]. Stigmatize, denounce.
Inputed by Giles
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:denounce, stigmatize, disgrace, mark
ANT:Distinguish, honor, decorate
Checked by Freda
Definition
n. a piece of wood burning or partly burned: a mark burned into anything with a hot iron: a trade-mark made by burning or otherwise as on casks: a particular sort of goods from the trade-marks by which they are known as cigars &c.: a sword so called from its glitter: a mark of infamy: a general name for the fungoid diseases or blights of grain crops—bunt mildew rust and smut.—v.t. to burn or mark with a hot iron: to fix a mark of infamy upon.—adj. Brand′ed.—n. Brand′er a gridiron.—v.t. to cook on the gridiron as beef-steaks.—p.adjs. Brand′ered Brand′ering.—ns. Brand′ing-ī′ron Brand′-ī′ron an iron to brand with: a trivet or tripod to set a pot or kettle upon: (Spens.) a sword—also Brand′ise a trivet; Brand′ling a red worm used by anglers found commonly in tan-pits.—adj. Brand′-new quite new (as if newly from the fire).—n. Brand′reth a stand of wood for a cask or hayrick a rail round a well.—A brand from the burning one snatched out of a pressing danger—from Amos iv. 11.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
Something carried on the hip, by either beast or man. Can be found on the outside of a short, red steer, or the inside of a long, black bottle.
Edited by Carlos
Examples
- The sun had now got far to the west of south and stood directly in her face, like some merciless incendiary, brand in hand, waiting to consume her. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young to know its meaning. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The large brand made it possible for cowboys on horseback to separate the cattle of different owners, as the brand could be seen at some distance. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Lawrence Grills, exhorting that gentleman to save the brand who honoured the letter from the burning. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I abstain from describing the device which the brand represented. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Religion--especially of the later Roman brand--was, in fact, excellent stuff for keeping the common people quiet. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He asked, he urged, he claimed the boon of a brand snatched from the burning. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Best brands Georgian, none in market; second quality, 1851, L180. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I'll warrant ye, said the drover, holds it and makes money out of it, and then turns round and brands the boy in his right hand. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Therefore, give your custom to other than Italian brands of the article. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Best brands Circassians, crop of 1850, L200; 1852, L250; 1854, L300. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- No ill-usage so brands its record on my feelings. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- She scattered the half-burnt brands, went indoors immediately, and up to her bedroom without a light. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- One evening, he was sitting, in utter dejection and prostration, by a few decaying brands, where his coarse supper was baking. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- For years his name was branded on every Bell telephone set, and his patents were a mainstay of what has been popularly called the Bell monopoly. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It was this that brought him before the Inquisition and that branded him as a dangerous heretic, and it was this that placed him in the forefront of the world’s discoverers. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Alas, my character is ruined, and I am a branded speaker of untruths! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I would have her branded on the face, dressed in rags, and cast out in the streets to starve. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- And now--and now I am myself a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which I sold my character. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- A man who has this mark, branded in this place, he said, covering his arm again, is a member of the Brotherhood. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Branding in this way was used mostly by cattle raisers when large herds were grazed on the western plains. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In a few terse phrases he told me his opinion of, and feeling towards, the actress: he judged her as a womannot an artist: it was a branding judgment. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I saw the death of that one with the rare name in his face as though it were burned there with a branding iron. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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