[f. BRAND v. + -ING2.]
1. That scorches or marks by burning.
1811. Byron, Curse of Min., xi. In many a branding page and burning line.
1850. Tennyson, In Mem., ii. Nor branding summer suns avail To touch thy thousand years of gloom.
1868. Ld. Lytton, Chron. & Char., II. 127. The branding bolt, that rent The skies asunder.
2. That brands or stigmatizes.
1853. C. Brontë, Villette, xxiii. (1876), 250. It was a branding judgment.
1877. Farrar, My Youth, i. 4. He felt the branding finger upon his brow.
