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The dictionary's 1913 edition of the 1900 International, renamed Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, has in modern times been used in various free online resources, as its copyright lapsed and it became public domain.
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Brank (brank)
n.	((?))
Brank
[Prov. of Celtic origin; cf. L. brance, brace, the Gallic name of a particularly white kind of corn.]

Buckwheat.

[Local, Eng.] Halliwell.

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Brank (brank)
n.
Brank

A sort of bridle with wooden side pieces.

[Scot. *** Prov. Eng.] Jamieson.

A scolding bridle, an instrument formerly used for correcting scolding women. It was an iron frame surrounding the head and having a triangular piece entering the mouth of the scold.

Brank (brank)
v. i.
Brank

To hold up and toss the head] -- applied to horses as spurning the bit.

[Scot. *** Prov. Eng.]

To prance] to caper.

[Scot.] Jamieson.

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The dictionary's 1913 edition of the 1900 International, renamed Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, has in modern times been used in various free online resources, as its copyright lapsed and it became public domain.
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