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Branch [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The shoot of a tree or other plant; a limb; a bough shooting from the stem, or from another branch or bough. Johnson restricts the word to a shoot from a main bough; but the definition warranted neither by etymology nor usage.

2. A division of a main stem, supporting the leaves and fructification.

3. An arm of a tree sprouting from the stem.

4. Any arm or extended part shooting or extended from the main body of a thing; as the branch of a candlestick or of an artery. Hence, from similitude, a smaller stream running into a large one, or proceeding from it. Also, the shoot of a stag's horn; an antler.

5. Any member or part of a body, or system; a distinct article; a section or subdivision; as, charity is a branch of christian duty.

6. Any individual of a family descending in a collateral line; any descendant from a common parent or stock.

7. Branches of a bridle, two pieces of bent iron which bear the bit, the cross chains and the curb.

8. In architecture, branches of ogives are the arches of Gothic vaults, traversing from one angle to another diagonally, and forming a cross between the other arches, which make the sides of the square, of which these arches are diagonals.

9. A warrant or commission given to a pilot.

10. A chandelier.

Branch [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To shoot or spread in branches; to ramify, as a plant, or as horns.

2. To divide into separate parts, or subdivisions, as a mountain, a stream, or a moral subject; to ramify.

3. To speak diffusively; to make many distinctions or divisions in a discourse.

4. To have horns shooting out.

Branch [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To divide as into branches; to make subordinate divisions.

2. To adorn with needle work, representing branches, flowers, or twigs.

Branch [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

Branch [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. 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.

3. Any member or part of a body or system; a distinct article; a section or subdivision; a department.

4. 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.

6. A warrant or commission given to a pilot, authorizing him to pilot vessels in certain waters.

Branch [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To shoot or spread in branches; to separate into branches; to ramify.

2. To divide into separate parts or subdivision.

Branch [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To divide as into branches; to make subordinate division in.

2. To adorn with needlework representing branches, flowers, or twigs.

Branch Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary

a title of Messiah: “And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a BRANCH shall grow out of his roots,” Isaiah xi, 1. See also Zech. iii, 8; vi, 12; Jer. xxiii, 5; xxxiii, 15. When Christ is represented as a slender twig, shooting out from the trunk of an old tree lopped to the very root and decayed, and becoming itself a mighty tree, reference is made, 1. To the kingly dignity of Christ, springing up from the decayed house of David; 2. To the exaltation which was to succeed his humbled condition on earth, and to the glory and vigour of his mediatorial reign.

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Branch pilot Webster's Dictionary 1913

A pilot who has a branch or commission, as from Trinity House, England, for special navigation.

Branch-leaf [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A leaf growing on a branch.

Branch-peduncle [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A peduncle springing from a branch.

Branch-pilot [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A pilot who has a branch or public commission.

Branched [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Divided or spread into branches; separated into subordinate parts; adorned with branches; furnished with branches.

Branched [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Brancher [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. One that shoots forth branches.

2. A young hawk when it begins to leave the nest and take to the branches.

Brancher [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. That which shoots forth branches; one who shows growth in various directions.

2. A young hawk when it begins to leave the nest and take to the branches.

Branchery [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The ramifications or ramified vessels dispersed through the pulpy part of fruit.

Branchery [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A system of branches.

Branches [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Branchia [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A gill; a respiratory organ for breathing the air contained in water, such as many aquatic and semiaquatic animals have.

Branchiae [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Branchial [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of or pertaining to branchiae or gills.

Branchiate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Furnished with branchiae; as, branchiate segments.

Branchiferous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having gills; branchiate; as, branchiferous gastropods.

Branchiness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Fullness of branches.

Branchiness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Fullness of branches.

Branching [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Furnished with branches; shooting out branches.

Branching [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Shooting in branches; dividing into several subordinate parts.

Branching [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches.

Branching [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The act or state of separation into branches; division into branches; a division or branch.

Branching [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Branchiogastropoda [Noun plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Those Gastropoda that breathe by branchiae, including the Prosobranchiata and Opisthobranchiata.

Branchiomerism [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The state of being made up of branchiate segments.

Branchiopod [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One of the Branchiopoda.

Branchiopoda [Noun plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An order of Entomostraca; -- so named from the feet of branchiopods having been supposed to perform the function of gills. It includes the fresh-water genera Branchipus, Apus, and Limnadia, and the genus Artemia found in salt lakes. It is also called Phyllopoda. See Phyllopoda, Cladocera. It is sometimes used in a broader sense.

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Genesis 2:10

And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.

Now a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it branched into four headwaters:

Genesis 30:37

And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.

Jacob, however, took fresh branches of poplar, almond, and plane trees, and peeled the bark, exposing the white inner wood of the branches.

Genesis 30:38

And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.

Then he set the peeled branches in the watering troughs in front of the flocks coming in to drink. So when the flocks were in heat and came to drink,

Genesis 30:39

And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.

they mated in front of the branches. And they bore young that were streaked or speckled or spotted.

Genesis 30:41

And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.

Whenever the stronger females of the flock were in heat, Jacob would place the branches in the troughs, in full view of the animals, so that they would breed in front of the branches.

Genesis 30:42

But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.

But if the animals were weak, he did not set out the branches. So the weaker animals went to Laban and the stronger ones to Jacob.

Genesis 40:10

And in the vine were three branches: and it was as though it budded, and her blossoms shot forth; and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes:

and on the vine were three branches. As it budded, its blossoms opened and its clusters ripened into grapes.

Genesis 40:12

And Joseph said unto him, This is the interpretation of it: The three branches are three days:

Joseph replied, “This is the interpretation: The three branches are three days.

Genesis 49:11

Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass’s colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:

He ties his donkey to the vine, his colt to the choicest branch. He washes his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.

Genesis 49:22

Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:

Joseph is a fruitful vine— a fruitful vine by a spring, whose branches scale the wall.

Exodus 25:31

And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same.

Then you are to make a lampstand of pure, hammered gold. It shall be made of one piece, including its base and shaft, its cups, and its buds and petals.

Exodus 25:32

And six branches shall come out of the sides of it; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side:

Six branches are to extend from the sides of the lampstand—three on one side and three on the other.

Exodus 25:33

Three bowls made like unto almonds, with a knop and a flower in one branch; and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch, with a knop and a flower: so in the six branches that come out of the candlestick.

There are to be three cups shaped like almond blossoms on the first branch, each with buds and petals, three on the next branch, and the same for all six branches that extend from the lampstand.

Exodus 25:35

And there shall be a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, according to the six branches that proceed out of the candlestick.

For the six branches that extend from the lampstand, a bud must be under the first pair of branches, a bud under the second pair, and a bud under the third pair.

Exodus 25:36

Their knops and their branches shall be of the same: all it shall be one beaten work of pure gold.

The buds and branches are to be all of one piece with the lampstand, hammered out of pure gold.

Exodus 37:17

And he made the candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work made he the candlestick; his shaft, and his branch, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, were of the same:

Then he made the lampstand out of pure hammered gold, all of one piece: its base and shaft, its cups, and its buds and petals.

Exodus 37:18

And six branches going out of the sides thereof; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side thereof, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side thereof:

Six branches extended from the sides, three on one side and three on the other.

Exodus 37:19

Three bowls made after the fashion of almonds in one branch, a knop and a flower; and three bowls made like almonds in another branch, a knop and a flower: so throughout the six branches going out of the candlestick.

There were three cups shaped like almond blossoms on the first branch, each with buds and petals, three on the next branch, and the same for all six branches that extended from the lampstand.

Exodus 37:21

And a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, according to the six branches going out of it.

A bud was under the first pair of branches that extended from the lampstand, a bud under the second pair, and a bud under the third pair.

Exodus 37:22

Their knops and their branches were of the same: all of it was one beaten work of pure gold.

The buds and branches were all of one piece with the lampstand, hammered out of pure gold.