Definition of "brant"

brant¹

/bɹænt/

noun
plural brants or brant
1. (Canada, US) Any of several wild geese, of the genus Branta, that breed in the Arctic, but especially the brent goose, Branta bernicla.
  Quotations
  I have given you roe and reindeer, / I have given you brant and beaver, / Filled the marshes full of wild-fowl, / Filled the rivers full of fishes; / Why then are you not contented? / Why then will you hunt each other?
  1855, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Book I”, in The Song of Hiawatha

brant²

/bɹænt/

adjective
comparative more brant, superlative most brant
1. (dialectal) steep, precipitous.
  Quotations
  Grapes grow on the brant rocks so wonderfully that ye will marvel how any man dare climb up to them.
  1551, Roger Ascham, letter to Mr. Edward Raven
2. (Scotland) smooth; unwrinkled
  Quotations
  Your bonnie brow was brent.
  1828, Robert Burns, John Anderson