Brentford
county town of Middlesex, England, 7 miles W. of London; with saw mills, pottery works, foundries, etc.
Here Edmund Ironside defeated Canute in 1016; and Prince Rupert, Colonel Hollis, in 1642. Pop. about 17,000.
BRENT GOOSE (anser brenta or bernicla), a wild goose, smaller than the common barnacle goose and of much darker plumage, remarkable for length of wing and extent of migratory power, being a winter bird of passage in France, Germany, Holland, Great Britain, the United States, Canada, etc. It breeds in high northern latitudes; and is considered the most delicate for the table of all the goose tribe.