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Bran. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To burn. [Obs.] Chaucer. Consuming fire brent his shearing house or stall. W. Browne.

A tribute which tenants paid to their lord, in lieu of bran, which they were obliged to furnish for his hounds.

Burningly; ardently. [Obs.]

of Bren. Burnt. [Obs.]

Smooth; unwrinkled. [Scot.] Your bonnie brow was brent. Burns.

To renounce. [Obs.] "They abrenounce and cast them off." Latimer.

Absolute renunciation or repudiation. [Obs.] An abrenunciation of that truth which he so long had professed, and still believed. Fuller.

The quality or state of being somber; gloominess.

An acute fever. [Obs.] "Brenning agues." P. Plowman.

p had bought . . . and because of his fierceness kept him within a brake of iron bars. J. Brende.

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

the arm. Brawn without brains is thine. Dryden. It was ordained that murderers should be brent on the brawn of the left hand. E. Hall. And in my vantbrace put this withered brawn. Shak.

Pleasure; gratification; delight. [Obs.] He Rome brent for his delicacie. Chaucer.

To interweave or interlace. [R.] Brende.

superior force, influence, or efficacy; prevailing; predominant; successful; victorious. Brennus told the Roman embassadors, that prevalent arms were as good as any title. Sir W. Raleigh.

A stable; a shippen. [Obs.] The shepne brenning with the blacke smoke. Chaucer.

intillation. As fire is wont to quicken and go From a sparkle sprungen amiss, Till a city brent up is. Chaucer. The shock was sufficiently strong to strike out some sparkles of his fiery temper. Prescott.

t woman even now with me; but she's gone. Sim. Pray you, sir, was't not the wise woman of Brentford Shak.

y whose name was Simon, a witch. Wyclif (Acts viii. 9). He can not abide the old woman of Brentford; he swears she's a witch. Shak.