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Evincing state or dignity; lofty; majestic; grand; as, statelymanners; a stately gait. "The stately homes of England!" Mrs. Hemans. "Filled with stately temples." Prescott. Here is a stately style indeed! Shak.

A weapon, as a sword, dagger, etc. "Brave Macbeth . . . with his brandished steel." Shak. While doubting thus he stood, Received the steel bathed in his brother's blood. Dryden.

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.

eet 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 trad…

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

the street; the French perron. Hence, any porch, platform, entrance stairway, or small veranda, at a house door. [U. S.]

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

Belonging to another country; foreign. "To seek strange strands." Chaucer. One of the strange queen's lords. Shak. I do not contemn the knowledge of strange and divers tongues. Ascham.

To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded; as, the ship struck in the night.

Strand; beach. [Obs.] Shak.

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

r expressing the emotion of awe, adoration, veneration, heroic resolve, etc.; dignified; grand; solemn; stately; -- said of an impressive object in nature, of an action, of a discourse, of a work of art, of a spectacle, etc.; as, sublime scenery; a sublime deed. Easy in words thy style, in sense sublime. Prior. Know ho…

sovereign, of a Mohammedan state; specifically, the ruler of the Turks; the Padishah, or Grand Seignior; -- officially so called. Sultan flower. (Bot.) See Sweet sultan, under Sweet.

Grand; magnificent; august; stately; as, a superb edifice; a superb colonnade.

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

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.