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Pertaining to, or resembling, the Aurantiaceæ, an order of plants (formerly considered natural), of which the orange is the type.

ome contempt, or indicted for some crime; -- so called in distinction from a justice's warrant.

A species of wild goose (Branta bernicla) -- called also brent and brand goose. The name is also applied to other related species.

A kind of fox found in Sweden (Vulpes alopex), smaller than the common fox (V. vulgaris), but probably a variety of it.

The European redstart; -- so called from the red color of its tail.

Steep; high. [Obs.] Grapes grow on the brant rocks so wonderfully that ye will marvel how any man dare climb up to them. Ascham.

Kicking. Hence: Stubborn; refractory.

A cauterizing substance.

One who performs a public religious rite; -- applied particularly to an officiating priest in the Roman Catholic Church, as distinguished from his assistants.

rily residing; inhabiting. All freeholders within the precinct . . . and all persons commorant therein. Blackstone.

Burning together in a common flame. [R.] "The conflagrant mass." Milton.

Engaging in a plot to commit a crime; conspiring. [Obs.] Shak.

to a remonstraint. [R.] They did the synod wrong to make this distinction of contraremonstrants and remonstrants. Hales.

Operating together; as, coöperant forces.

A sprightly but somewhat stately dance, now out of fashion. It is harder to dance a corant well, than a jig. Sir W. temple. Dancing a coranto with him upon the heath. Macaulay.

pecies of Phalacrocorax, a genus of sea birds having a sac under the beak; the shag. Cormorants devour fish voraciously, and have become the emblem of gluttony. They are generally black, and hence are called sea ravens, and coalgeese. [Written also corvorant.]

Anything which gives strength or support; a tonic. The brain, with its proper corroborants, especially with sweet odors and with music. Southey.

See Cormorant.

Running in opposite directions; -- said of animals borne in a coast of arms.

A piece of music in triple time; also, a lively dance; a coranto.