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Brant   /brænt/   Listen
noun
Brant  n.  (Zool.) A species of wild goose (Branta bernicla) called also brent and brand goose. The name is also applied to other related species.



adjective
Brant  adj.  Steep. (Prov. Eng.)



Brant, Brent  adj.  
1.
Steep; high. (Obs.) "Grapes grow on the brant rocks so wonderfully that ye will marvel how any man dare climb up to them."
2.
Smooth; unwrinkled. (Scot.) "Your bonnie brow was brent."






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"Brant" Quotes from Famous Books



... compliance with a resolution of the 30th ultimo, the proceedings of the court of inquiry in the case of Lieutenant-Colonel Brant,[56] held at St. Louis in November last, and the papers connected therewith, together with a copy of ...
— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Section 2 (of 2) of Volume 3: Martin Van Buren • James D. Richardson

... in his servants, but resolved to travel afar. So he had the eight famous steeds harnessed, and accompanied by a few faithful retainers, drove a thousand miles away. There he came to the country of the great hunters. The great hunters brought the King the blood of the white brant to drink, and washed his feet in the milk of mares and cows. When the King and his followers had quenched their thirst, they drove on and camped for the night on the slope of the Kunlun Mountain, south of the Red ...
— The Chinese Fairy Book • Various

... cause of the colonies up to the time of the Revolutionary War. In 1739 Johnson married Catherine Wisenberg, by whom he had three children. After her death he had various mistresses, including a niece of the Indian chief Hendrick, and Molly Brant, a sister of the famous chief, Joseph Brant. It is said that he was the father of 100 children in all. After the French and Indian War he retired to ...
— The Greatest Highway in the World • Anonymous

... a sunny morning toward the close of May, when Brant and his warriors cautiously moved up to the brow of the lofty hill on the east side of the town (Cherry Valley) to reconnoitre the settlement at their feet. He was astonished and chagrined on seeing a fortification where he supposed all was weak and defenceless, and greater was ...
— The Minute Boys of the Mohawk Valley • James Otis

... of brants (snow-geese) pass up the river; some of them are perfectly white, except the large feathers of the first joint of the wing, which are black, though in every other characteristic they resemble common gray brant. We also saw but could not procure an animal (gopher) that burrows in the ground, and is similar in every respect to the burrowing-squirrel, except that it is only one-third of its size. This may be the animal whose works we have often seen in the plains and prairies; ...
— First Across the Continent • Noah Brooks


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