Obs. exc. dial. [A northern var. of brended, later BRINDED.] Brindled.
1561. Richmond, Wills (1853), 148. I geve to Henry Todd on oxe calfe in Peknell, color branded.
1607. Topsell, Four-f. Beasts, 126. A spotted, branded, party coloured dog is not approved.
1612. Chapman, Iliad, XXI. 217. They saw a branded serpent sprawl … amongst them from above.
a. 1800. Ballad, ‘Lads of Wamphray,’ iii. in Scott Minstr. The brokit cow and the branded bull.
1880. Patterson, Antrim & Down Gloss., Branded, brannet, of a red colour with streaks or bands, applied to cattle.
