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.