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BRAND, n.

1. A burning piece of wood or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct.
2. A sword, either from brandishing, or from its glittering brightness now obsolete,unless in poetry.
3. A thunder-bolt.
4. A mark made by burning with a hot iron, as upon a criminal, or upon a cask a stigma any note of infamy.

BRAND, To burn or impress a mark with a hot iron as, to brand a criminal, by way of punishment or to brand a cask or any thing else, for the purpose of fixing a mark upon it.

1. To fix a mark or character of infamy, in allusion to the branding of criminals to stigmatize as infamous as, to brand a vice with infamy.
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Entry for 'Brand'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​b/brand.html.
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