Hypertext Webster Gateway: "brant"
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) 1.7 (wn)
brant
n : small dark geese that breed in the north and migrate
southward [syn: {brant goose}, {brent}, {brent goose}]
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