Part 1348

<hw>Branch"less</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Destitude of branches or shoots; without any valuable product; barren; naked.</def>

<h1>Branchlet</h1> <Xpage=175>

<hw>Branch"let</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Branch</ets> + <ets>-let</ets>.]</ety> <def>A little branch; a twig.</def>

<h1>Branch pilot</h1> <Xpage=175>

<hw>Branch" pi`lot</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <def>A pilot who has a branch or commission, as from Trinity House, England, for special navigation.</def>

<h1>Branchy</h1> <Xpage=175>

<hw>Branch"y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Full of branches; having wide-spreading branches; consisting of branches.</def>

<blockquote>Beneath thy <b>branchy</b> bowers of thickest gloom. <i>J. Scott.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Brand</h1> <Xpage=175>

<hw>Brand</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>brand</ets>, <ets>brond</ets>, AS. <ets>brand brond</ets> brand, sword, from <ets>byrnan</ets>, <ets>beornan</ets>, to burn; akin to D., Dan., Sw., & G. <ets>brand</ets> brand, Icel. <ets>brandr</ets> a brand, blade of a sword. &root;32. See <er>Burn</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt>, and cf. <er>Brandish</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct.</def>

<blockquote>Snatching a live <b>brand</b> from a wigwam, Mason threw it on a matted roof. <i>Palfrey.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A sword, so called from its glittering or flashing brightness.</def> <mark>[Poetic]</mark>

<i>Tennyson.</i>

<blockquote>Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming <b>brand</b>. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A mark made by burning with a hot iron, as upon a cask, to designate the quality, manufacturer, etc., of the contents, or upon an animal, to designate ownership; -- also, a mark for a similar purpose made in any other way, as with a stencil. Hence, figurately: Quality; kind; grade; <as>as, a good <ex>brand</ex> of flour</as>.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A mark put upon criminals with a hot iron. Hence: Any mark of infamy or vice; a stigma.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>brand</b> of private vice. <i>Channing.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>An instrument to brand with; a branding iron.</def>

<p><b>6.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>Any minute fungus which produces a burnt appearance in plants. The brands are of many species and several genera of the order <spn>Puccini\'91i</spn>.</def>

<h1>Brand</h1> <Xpage=175>

<hw>Brand</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v.t</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Branded</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Branding</er>.]</wordforms>. <p><b>1.</b> <def>To burn a distinctive mark into or upon with a hot iron, to indicate quality, ownership, etc., or to mark as infamous (as a convict).</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To put an actual distinctive mark upon in any other way, as with a stencil, to show quality of contents, name of manufacture, etc.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Fig.: To fix a mark of infamy, or a stigma, upon.</def>

<blockquote>The Inquisition <b>branded</b> its victims with infamy. <i>Prescott.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>There were the enormities, <b>branded</b> and condemned by the first and most natural verdict of common humanity. <i>South.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To mark or impress indelibly, as with a hot iron.</def>

<blockquote>As if it were <b>branded</b> on my mind. <i>Geo. Eliot.</i></blockquote>

<hw>Brand"er<tt>hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who, or that which, brands; a branding iron.</def>