Obs. exc. dial. Also 1 brand-isen, 9 brandice. [OE. brand-ísen, f. brand burning + ísen iron: but the history of the word between OE. and modern times is uncertain.] A trivet; perhaps used also in the other senses of BRANDER sb., BRANDIRON.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 127. Andena vel tripes, brandisen.
1872. Hardwick, Trad. Lancashire, 133. The brandice.
1874. T. Hardy, Madding Crowd, xxii. (1882), 152. There was a great black crock upon the brandise.
