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Brant   /brænt/   Listen
noun
Brant  n.  (Zool.) A species of wild goose (Branta bernicla) called also brent and brand goose. The name is also applied to other related species.



adjective
Brant  adj.  Steep. (Prov. Eng.)



Brant, Brent  adj.  
1.
Steep; high. (Obs.) "Grapes grow on the brant rocks so wonderfully that ye will marvel how any man dare climb up to them."
2.
Smooth; unwrinkled. (Scot.) "Your bonnie brow was brent."






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"Brant" Quotes from Famous Books



... crag to crag upward he sprang; like a panther he leaped to the summit. Too late! on the brave as he crept turned the maid in her scorn and defiance; Then swift from the dizzy height leaped. Like a brant arrow-pierced in mid-heaven. Down-whirling and fluttering she fell, and headlong plunged into the waters. Forever she sank mid the wail, and the wild lamentation of women. Her lone spirit evermore dwells in the depths of the Lake of the Mountains, And the ...
— Legends of the Northwest • Hanford Lennox Gordon

... by the Arctic Sea; they would rest for a few days in the prairie sloos and then push on again. Their harsh clamor had a note of unrest and rang through the dark like a trumpet call, stirring the blood. The brant and bernicle beat their way North against the roaring winds, and man with a different instinct pressed ...
— The Girl From Keller's - Sadie's Conquest • Harold Bindloss

... upon the affair it is difficult to establish the fact that this was the character in which Agatha and Burnamy were commonly regarded by the inhabitants of Weimar. But whatever their own notion of their relation was, if it was not that of a Brant and a Brautigam, the people of Weimar would have been puzzled to say what it was. It was known that the gracious young lady's father, who would naturally have accompanied them, was sick, and in ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... correctness, his eyes were clear, his manner blithe, almost joyous. There was no possible indication in his appearance of his misspent hours. He was at once a genial and courteous host. Monsieur Decheles sat at his right hand; Monsieur Felix Brant on his left; Monsieur Pelleman opposite to him. The three men had arrived in an automobile together and had entered the restaurant by the private way, but that they were guests of some distinction was obvious from their ...
— The Mischief Maker • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... and he married the first one in 1609. Her name was Isabella Brant. Sir Joshua Reynolds said of her: "His wife is very handsome and has an agreeable countenance, but the picture is rather hard in manner"—by which he meant a picture which Rubens had painted of her. One of his greatest privileges when ...
— Pictures Every Child Should Know • Dolores Bacon


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