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Charter land held by deed under certain rents and free services, which differed in nothing from free socage lands. This species of tenure has given rise to the modern freeholds.

A place or stand for the sale of books in the streets; a bookstall.

Either land held by a bordar, or the land which a lord kept for the maintenance of his board, or table. Spelman.

A factotum. [R.] He is his master's both-hands, I assure you. B. Jonson.

The hand that holds the bow, i. e., the left hand. Surely he shoots wide on the bow hand. Spenser.

ce of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct. Snatching a live brand from a wigwam, Mason threw it on a matted roof. Palfrey.

A species of wild goose (Branta bernicla) usually called in America brant. See Brant.

A branding iron.

One of several spores growing in a series or chain, and produced by one of the fungi called brand.

Quite new; bright as if fresh from the forge.

A kind of decoration for the breast of a coat, sometimes only a frog with a loop, but in some military uniforms enlarged into a broad horizontal stripe.

One who, or that which, brands; a branding iron.

Mingled with brandy; made stronger by the addition of brandy; flavored or treated with brandy; as, brandied peaches.

An iron to brand with.

To move or wave, as a weapon; to raise and move in various directions; to shake or flourish. The quivering lance which he brandished bright. Drake.

One who brandishes.

To shake; to totter. [Obs.]

Same as Branlin, fish and worm.

iquor distilled from wine. The name is also given to spirit distilled from other liquors, and in the United States to that distilled from cider and peaches. In northern Europe, it is also applied to a spirit obtained from grain. Brandy fruit, fruit preserved in brandy and sugar.

Brandy. [Obs.] Wiseman.