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6 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Brant \Brant\, a. [See {Brent}.] Steep. [Prov. Eng.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: brant n : small dark geese that breed in the north and migrate southward [syn: {brant goose}, {brent}, {brent goose}] From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: Brant, MI Zip code(s): 48614
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