BRANCHLET
Branch"let, n. Etym: [Branch + -let.]
Defn: A little branch; a twig.
BRANCH PILOT
Branch" pi`lot.
Defn: A pilot who has a branch or commission, as from Trinity House,
England, for special navigation.
BRANCHY
Branch"y, a.
Defn: Full of branches; having wide-spreading branches; consisting of
branches.
Beneath thy branchy bowers of thickest gloom. J. Scott.
BRAND Brand, n. Etym: [OE. brand, brond, AS. brand brond brand, sword, from byrnan, beornan, to burn; akin to D., Dan., Sw., & G. brand brand, Icel. brandr a brand, blade of a sword. sq. root32. See Burn, v. t., and cf. Brandish.]
1. A burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct. Snatching a live brand from a wigwam, Mason threw it on a matted roof. Palfrey.
2. A sword, so called from its glittering or flashing brightness.
[Poetic] Tennyson.
Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand.
Milton.
3. A mark made by burning with a hot iron, as upon a cask, to designate the quality, manufacturer, etc., of the contents, or upon an animal, to designate ownership; — also, a mark for a similar purpose made in any other way, as with a stencil. Hence, figurately: Quality; kind; grade; as, a good brand of flour.