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A mark made with a burning iron; a brand.

A notorious profligate or criminal who has been branded; one who bears the marks of infamy or punishment. [R.] Bullokar.

To mark with a stigma, or brand; as, the ancients stigmatized their slaves and soldiers. That . . . hold out both their ears with such delight and ravishment, to be stigmatized and bored through in witness of their own voluntary and beloved baseness. Milton.

To burn in the process of distillation; as, to still-burn brandy.

meet and transact business by certain recognized forms, regulations, and usages. Wharton. Brande & C. -- Stock farmer, a farmer who makes it his business to rear live stock. -- Stock gillyflower (Bot.), the common stock. See Stock, n., 18. -- Stock gold, gold laid up so as to form a stock, or hoard. -- Stock in tra…

ions. Groom of the stole, the first lord of the bedchamber in the royal household. [Eng.] Brande & C.

that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves. Brandle & C.

so placed as to have a common angle at the vertex, the opposite sides not being parallel. Brande & C.

ounced or abjures the supremacy of the pope in ecclesiastical or temporal affairs. [Eng.] Brande & C.

t of swaying; a swaying motion; the swing or sweep of a weapon. With huge two-handed sway brandished aloft. Milton.

To give a circular movement to; to whirl; to brandish; as, to swing a sword; to swing a club; hence, colloquially, to manage; as, to swing a business.

de of a sword or dagger, as in a sheath. -- Sword dance. (a) A dance in which swords are brandished and clashed together by the male dancers. Sir W. Scott. (b) A dance performed over swords laid on the ground, but without touching them. -- Sword fight, fencing; a combat or trial of skill with swords; swordplay. -- S…

A peculiar combination of pulleys. Brande & C.

A combination of wax, resin, lard, and pitch, composing an ointment. Brande & C.

A machine in which four pulleys act together. Brande & C.

to drill. [Obs.] He pierced through his chafed chest With thrilling point of deadly iron brand. Spenser.

contrivance for registering the state of the tide continuously at every instant of time. Brande & C. -- Tide lock, a lock situated between an inclosed basin, or a canal, and the tide water of a harbor or river, when they are on different levels, so that craft can pass either way at all times of the tide; - - called a…

Liquor; especially, a small draught of liquor. "Sipping his tiff of brandy punch." Sir W. Scott.

by a town for beasts driven through it, or over a bridge or ferry maintained at its cost. Brande & C. -- Toll traverse (Eng. Law), toll taken by an individual for beasts driven across his ground; toll paid by a person for passing over the private ground, bridge, ferry, or the like, of another. -- Toll turn (Eng. Law)…

olding used in the bases of columns. Its profile is semicircular. See Illust. of Molding. Brande&C.