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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BRENT or BRANT, a. Steep; high.
BRENT, n. A brant, or brand-goose, a fowl with a black neck and a white collar or line round it. [See Brant.]
1. Brunt. [See Bren.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: small dark geese that breed in the north and migrate southward [syn: brant, brant goose, brent, brent goose]

Merriam Webster's

or formerly Brentford and Chiswick geographical name borough of W Greater London, England population 226,100

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (US brant) (in full brent-goose) a small migratory goose, Branta bernicla. Etymology: 16th c.: orig. unkn.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bren Bren, Brenne Bren"ne, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Brent (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Brenning.] [See Burn.] To burn. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Consuming fire brent his shearing house or stall. --W. Browne.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Brent Brent, imp. & p. p. of Bren. Burnt. [Obs.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Brent Brent, n. [Cf. Brant.] A brant. See Brant.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Brant, brand-goose (Anser bernicla).