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brand (brand)

noun

  1. a stick that is burning or partially burned
  2. a mark burned on the skin with a hot iron, formerly used to punish and identify criminals, now used on cattle to show ownership
  3. the iron thus used
  4. a mark of disgrace; stigma
    1. an identifying mark or label on the products of a particular company; trademark
    2. the kind or make of a commodity a new brand of tea
    3. a special kind his brand of nonsense
  5. Archaic a sword

Etymology: ME < OE brand, brond, a flame, torch, sword < base of biernan, brinnan, burn

transitive verb

  1. to mark with or as with a brand
  2. to put a mark of disgrace on; stigmatize
  3. to market (products) by branding

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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