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Branch   /bræntʃ/   Listen
noun
Branch  n.  (pl. branches)  
1.
(Bot.) A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant.
2.
Any division extending like a branch; any arm or part connected with the main body of thing; ramification; as, the branch of an antler; the branch of a chandelier; a branch of a river; a branch of a railway. "Most of the branches, or streams, were dried up."
3.
Any member or part of a body or system; a distinct article; a section or subdivision; a department. "Branches of knowledge." "It is a branch and parcel of mine oath."
4.
(Geom.) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance; as, the branches of an hyperbola.
5.
A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line; as, the English branch of a family. "His father, a younger branch of the ancient stock."
6.
(Naut.) A warrant or commission given to a pilot, authorizing him to pilot vessels in certain waters.
Branches of a bridle, two pieces of bent iron, which bear the bit, the cross chains, and the curb.
Branch herring. See Alewife.
Root and branch, totally, wholly.
Synonyms: Bough; limb; shoot; offshoot; twig; sprig.


verb
Branch  v. t.  
1.
To divide as into branches; to make subordinate division in.
2.
To adorn with needlework representing branches, flowers, or twigs. "The train whereof loose far behind her strayed, Branched with gold and pearl, most richly wrought."


Branch  v. i.  (past & past part. branched; pres. part. branching)  
1.
To shoot or spread in branches; to separate into branches; to ramify.
2.
To divide into separate parts or subdivision.
To branch off, to form a branch or a separate part; to diverge.
To branch out, to speak diffusively; to extend one's discourse to other topics than the main one; also, to enlarge the scope of one's business, etc. "To branch out into a long disputation."


adjective
Branch  adj.  Diverging from, or tributary to, a main stock, line, way, theme, etc.; as, a branch vein; a branch road or line; a branch topic; a branch store.





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"Branch" Quotes from Famous Books



... hindered at each step by bushes, caught by creepers, barred by trunks of trees, did not shine beside those supple animals, who, bounding from branch to branch, were hindered by nothing on their course. The monkeys were numerous, but happily they did not ...
— The Mysterious Island • Jules Verne
... remained before we could reach a hospitable asylum. I endeavoured to sustain, by this information, the sinking spirits of my companion. While busy in conversing with her, a blast of irresistible force twisted off the highest branch of a tree before us. It fell in the midst of the road, at the distance of a few feet from her horse's head. Terrified by this accident, the horse started from the path, and, rushing into the wood, in a moment threw himself and his rider on the ground, by encountering ...
— Arthur Mervyn - Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 • Charles Brockden Brown
... part of your education," he said. "I want my daughters to become thorough housekeepers, conversant with all the details of every branch of the business. Gracie is not old enough or strong enough to begin that part of her training yet, but you are; so you must take care of your rooms yourself, except when something more than sweeping, ...
— Elsie's Kith and Kin • Martha Finley
... branch of the Slavonic family that in the later half of the 6th century settled in Bohemia; have a language of their own, spoken also in Moravia ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood
... small room of the house, engaged in a very different style of conversation. The room in which they are is worth a few words of description, not for any beauty or desert of its own, but for its heterogeneous, contents. You would think a small music warehouse, a miniature tobacco shop, or branch depot of foreign grammars and dictionaries were before you. Every kind of musical instrument seems to have met with a companion in this tiny apartment. Here are a violin, violoncello, horn, and cornopean; there an old Welsh harp and unstrung guitar. On this shelf are pipes of all sorts ...
— Gladys, the Reaper • Anne Beale


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