Obs. Also brane. [a. F. bran(e ‘a kind of unreclaimable wild Oxe in Provence and Languedoc’ (Cotgr.), ad. pseudo-Latin branus, brana, a misreading of brauus, braua; cf. mod.Pr. brau bull.] A name applied to some imperfectly known animal, described as a wild ox.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, II. ix. 170. Markham … calls it a Buffle, or Wild Oxe; others call them Brans, or Branes, or Wild Oxen.
