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Worn in, or suspended from, the belt. Three men with belted brands. Sir W. Scott. Belted cattle, cattle originally from Dutch stock, having a broad band of white round the middle, while the rest of the body is black; -- called also blanketed cattle.

ue, by adding yellow orpiment, or by grinding down the green carbonate of copper. Cooley. Brande & C.

Germinating inside the pericarp, as the mangrove. Brande & C.

To wave; to brandish. [Obs.] And burning blades about their heads do bless. Spenser. Round his armed head his trenchant blade he blest. Fairfax.

th. -- Blue mold, or mould, the blue fungus (Aspergillus glaucus) which grows on cheese. Brande & C. -- Blue Monday, a Monday following a Sunday of dissipation, or itself given to dissipation (as the Monday before Lent). -- Blue ointment (Med.), mercurial ointment. -- Blue Peter (British Marine), a blue flag with a…

To approach; to come near to; to verge. Wit which borders upon profaneness deserves to be branded as folly. Abp. Tillotson.

See Brand-new.

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

was chosen by the other chiefs to lead them in their warfare against the British tribes. Brande & C.

ch affects the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a fetid dust; -- also called pepperbrand.

A disease in vegetables. See Brand, n., 6.

dimensions of houses and the breadth of roads and streams, for the sake of distinctness. Brande & C.

arve out, to make or get by cutting, or as if by cutting; to cut out. "[Macbeth] with his brandished steel . . . carved out his passage." Shak. Fortunes were carved out of the property of the crown. Macaulay.

The warping of a board. Brande & C.

d; the cedar bird; -- so called from its fondness for cherries. -- Cherry bounce, cherry brandy and sugar. -- Cherry brandy, brandy in which cherries have been steeped. -- Cherry laurel (Bot.), an evergren shrub (Prunus Lauro-cerasus) common in shrubberies, the poisonous leaves of which have a flavor like that of bi…

Quality; brand; as, silk of the first chop.

he Sage family, used in flavoring soups. Clary water, a composition of clary flowers with brandy, etc., formerly used as a cardiac.

, is determined less by the purity of their style than by the period at which they wrote. Brande & C. He [Atterbury] directed the classical studies of the undergraduates of his college. Macaulay.

The science which treats of climates and investigates their phenomena and causes. Brande & C.

The compressed clay of coal strata. Brande & C.