Hypertext Webster Gateway: "brent"
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)
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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Brent \Brent\, imp. & p. p. of {Bren}.
Burnt. [Obs.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Brent \Brent\, n. [Cf. {Brant}.]
A brant. See {Brant}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
brent
n : small dark geese that breed in the north and migrate
southward [syn: {brant}, {brant goose}, {brent goose}]
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