Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Chiefly British Variant of brant.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Steep; upright; straight; high.
- Smooth; unwrinkled: applied to the blow.
- n. Same as brent-goose.
Wiktionary
- n. Alternative form of brant.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. obsolete Steep; high.
- adj. Scot. Smooth; unwrinkled.
- obsolete Burnt.
- n. A brant. See brant.
WordNet 3.0
- n. small dark geese that breed in the north and migrate southward
Examples
“Write to Brent Kendall at brent.kendall@dowjones.com”
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“One could not only live on frijoles y arroz, but prosper. brent”
“Yes, one wants to learn to communicate, not learn words that only a professor might know. brent”
“Now "hijito" is another case altogether. brent tashby”
“When out drinking, I was often called: "pinche gringo", again with affection or cariño. brent sanjuan”
“El dinero no es malo, avarício sí es. brent mazbook1”
NEED HELP ASAP how do u say ' strengh is my mother' in spanish
“El amor del dinero es la raíz de todos los males" brent”
NEED HELP ASAP how do u say ' strengh is my mother' in spanish
“If you worry (and should) about contaminated fish, catch and release. brent gbatrucks”
“On April 26, Mr. Obama and his advisers, alarmed by a report showing brent crude prices surging above $120 a barrel, concluded they should move to release oil from the strategic reserves held by the U.S. and other consuming nations.”
The Wall Street Journal: Before Oil Move, a Secret U.S. Delegation to Saudi Arabia
“Write to Mark Schoofs at mark.schoofs@wsj.com , Maurice Tamman at maurice.tamman@wsj.com and Brent Kendall at brent.kendall@dowjones.com”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘brent’.
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Boys Names
List of Boys names
danny, daniel, bobby, robert, chris, christopher, dan, bob, rob, jeff, jeffery, jeffrey and 105 more...
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birds
birds with singular names from
at least 9 English dictionariesaasvogel, aberdevine, accentor, accipiter, aepyornis, agami, albatross, alcatras, alcid, alcidine, amadavat, amokura and 1056 more...
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English Counties, Districts, Boroughs
northumberland, tyne and wear, newcastle upon tyne, gateshead, north tyneside, south tyneside, sunderland, cumbria, carlisle, allerdale, eden, copeland and 348 more...
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Discovered Scrabble Words
Oh, that little smiling teacher tile in my Scrabble app. He teaches me so much.
lovage, khaf, tititi, leet, ketol, fon, ono, dunelike, braw, bocci, lutz, fano and 132 more...
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Under The Kilt
Anything related to Scottish culture, cuisine, language, history and so on. Does not include Gaelic words unless acceptable (roughly speaking!) in a wider sense.
brae, machair, loch, burn, inverness, shieling, camanachd, shinty, diddy, bhoy, ghillie, brownie and 393 more...
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Boroughs of London
My favorite city in the entire world. Includes former as well as current boroughs (tags indicate which). I've never lived there so undoubtedly some of these are wrong; main source is Wikipedia so t...
hillingdon, harrow, barnet, enfield, haringey, waltham forest, newham, redbridge, barking and dagenham, havering, bexley, greenwich and 95 more...
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Still More Bird Wirds
A work in progress....Birds from around the world (other than endemic to North America).
barbet, hornbill, trogon, bee-eater, bristlehead, wren-babbler, stubtail, blackeye, bush warbler, cassowary, bowerbird, bird-of-paradise and 723 more...
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Family Names
brian, christopher, constantine, danielle, lynne, delanie, marie, alexander, lindsay, dylan, thomas, penelope and 27 more...
Tweets
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bilby Aaarggh! Television! Aug 12, 2008
plethora I was just on my way over to pow to ask what this meant. You read my mind, bilby.
Are you, by any chance, The One? Aug 11, 2008
bilby Scots - smooth.
John Anderson, my jo, John,
When we were first acquent,
Your locks were like the raven,
Your bonnie brow was brent;
But now your brow is beld, John,
Your locks are like the snow;
But blessings on your frosty pow,
John Anderson, my jo.
- R. Burns, 'John Anderson'. Aug 11, 2008