Brand

1. v. t. Any minute fungus which produces a burnt appearance in plants. The brands are of many species and several genera of the order Pucciniaei.
2. v. t. A burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct.
3. v. t. A sword, so called from its glittering or flashing brightness.
4. v. t. 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.
5. v. t. A mark put upon criminals with a hot iron. Hence: Any mark of infamy or vice; a stigma.
6. v. t. An instrument to brand with; a branding iron.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.