Crossword clues for branches
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Branch \Branch\, n.; pl. Branches. [OE. braunche, F. branche, fr. LL. branca claw of a bird or beast of prey; cf. Armor. brank branch, bough.]
(Bot.) A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant.
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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.
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Any member or part of a body or system; a distinct article; a section or subdivision; a department. ``Branches of knowledge.''
--Prescott.It is a branch and parcel of mine oath.
--Shak. (Geom.) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance; as, the branches of an hyperbola.
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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.
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(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.
Syn: Bough; limb; shoot; offshoot; twig; sprig.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of branch English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: branch)
Wikipedia
Branches is a novel-in-verse by American author Mitch Cullin, with illustrations by the Japanese artist Ryuzo Kikushima. It is the second installment of the writer's Texas Trilogy that also includes the coming-of-age football novel Whompyjawed and the surrealistic novel Tideland.
In a 2000 interview with the Austin Chronicle, Cullin stated that his first novel Whompyjawed was a more accurate reflection of West Texas while Branches, he was quoted as saying, "is kind of, maybe to a fault, what other people who haven't really been there might think it's like."
Branches was first published in March 2000 as a hardcover edition from The Permanent Press.
Usage examples of "branches".
Some of the branches were marked with a simple arrow arranged with rocks.
A great number have been sightings of transients and freight riders and animals, even tree branches scratching at the window, not hadals.
Foliage thinned out and branches began to shrink in size where the end of the Tree interlaced with the beginnings of another.
Hunting parties might cross the outer branches to a neighboring giant, but such a place held no real name connection in the Lemmit mind.
But that was before they left Chrestigho Branch and, finally, Sherandhel itself, and crossed to a neighboring giant that mingled its heavy inner branches with the outer growth of their own Tree.
They had moved on since then, and those same branches were heavy no more.
She was grateful, at least, for one new factor: as the branches thinned, they moved through increasingly heavy clusters of leaves, and the leaves gave her the comforting illusion that a great protective wall had risen up on either side of the narrow branch.
They were about to make a Crossing, moving through the relatively open patches where the outer branches of one Tree interlaced with another.
If it worked, she could cross as quickly as possible to the branches of another Tree.
He plunged through a thick grove of tall lichenspowder-rot branches snapped behind him in pink snowbursts of color.
She heard the wind rustling in the branches overhead and smaller animals scurrying among the leaves.
It was nearly impossible to see through the branches intertwined around the house.
Higher up, clinging to the branches of a tree, was a small tarsier with its round shiny eyes staring down at her.
Above her head, some fifteen feet up, she saw the branches of the tree were bent and broken to form a nest.
Rachael kept her gaze on the shore and the trees with their branches raised to the rolling clouds.