Brand goose \Brand" goose`\ [Prob. fr. 1st brand + goose: cf. Sw. brandg[*a]s. Cf. Brant.]

(Zo["o]l.) A species of wild goose (Branta bernicla) usually called in America brant. See Brant.

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Brant \Brant\ (br[a^]nt), n. [Cf.Brand goose, Brent, Brenicle.]

(Zo["o]l.) A species of wild goose (Branta bernicla) -- called also brent and brand goose. The name is also applied to other related species.

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Brant \Brant\, a. [See Brent.]

Steep. [Prov. Eng.]

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Brent \Brent\, Brant \Brant\, a. [AS. brant; akin to Dan. brat, Icel. brattr, steep.]

1. Steep; high. [Obs.]

Grapes grow on the brant rocks so wonderfully that ye will marvel how any man dare climb up to them. --Ascham.

2. Smooth; unwrinkled. [Scot.]

Your bonnie brow was brent. --Burns.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)