Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as brent-goose.
  • Steep; upright; straight; high.
  • Smooth; unwrinkled: applied to the blow.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A brant. See brant.
  • imperative, past participle obsolete Burnt.
  • adjective obsolete Steep; high.
  • adjective Scot. Smooth; unwrinkled.

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  • noun Alternative form of brant.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun small dark geese that breed in the north and migrate southward

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  • 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'.

    August 11, 2008

  • 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?

    August 11, 2008

  • Aaarggh! Television!

    August 12, 2008