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In the English lexicon, the Germanic word "brand" originally meant anything hot or burning, such as a fire-brand, a burning stick. By the European Middle Ages it commonly identified the process of burning a mark into a stock animals with thick hides, such as cattle, so as to identify ownership under animus revertendi.
A skid mark is the visible mark left by any solid which moves against another, and is an important aspect of trace evidence analysis in forensic science and forensic engineering. Skid marks caused by tires on roads occur when a vehicle wheel stops rolling and slides or spins on the surface of the road.
Human branding or stigmatizing is the process by which a mark, usually a symbol or ornamental pattern, is burned into the skin of a living person, with the intention of the resulting scar making it permanent. This is performed using a hot or very cold branding iron.
The Government suffered a rebellion by 47 Labour MPs who wanted a total ban when the measures were passed in the Children Act last November. Mrs Marsh added: "Parents may find themselves, often in the heat of the moment, trying to decide how hard and where on the body they can hit their children to avoid prosecution for leaving a mark.
A hickey, hickie, or sometimes referred to as a love bite in British English, is a bruise or bruise-like mark caused by biting or sucking the skin of a person, usually on their neck, arm, or earlobe. [ citation needed ] While biting may be part of giving a hickey, sucking is sufficient to burst small superficial blood vessels under the skin to ...
Dick Vitale called back, and immediately apologized. He couldn’t do an interview and he couldn’t talk for long. These were his doctor’s orders, and Vitale wasn’t leaving anything to chance ...
A calling card from the Inter City Firm, left at the scene of football hooliganism.. In criminology, a calling card is a particular object sometimes left behind by a criminal at a scene of a crime, often as a way of taunting police or claiming responsibility. [1]
The mental part of his game, processing new offensive ideas while being able to break down a defense in real time, is progressing. Reid said Mahomes attacks that part of the game with the same ...