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any fe£t*an or fubdivifion_In the feveral branches of juf- 
tice and charity, comprehended in thole general rules, of 
loving our neighbour as ourfelves, and of doing to others 
as we would have them do to us, there is s nothing but 
what is md.'l fit and reafonable. Tillojon. —Any part that 
fiioots out from the reft.—And fix branches (hall come out 
o-t’ the fides of it ; three branches of the candleftick out of 
the one fide, and three branches of the candleftick out of 
the other fide. Exodus. —A fmaller river running into, or 
proceeding from, a larger. The fmaller veins and arte¬ 
ries proceeding from the larger.—The blood, which dif- 
perfeth itfelf by the branches of veins, may be refembled 
to waters carried by brooks. Raleigh. — Any part of a fa¬ 
mily defeending in a collateral line.—His father, a younger 
branch of ihe ancient (lock planted in Somerfetlhire, took 
to wife the widow. Carcw. —The offspring; the defeendant: 
Great Anthony! Spain’s well-befeeming pride, 
Thou mighty branch of emperors and kings! Crajhaw. 
The antlers or Ihoots of a (tag’s horn. The branches of a 
bridle, which are two pieces of bended iron, that bear the 
bit-mouth, the chains, and the curb, in the interval be¬ 
tween the one and the other.—In architecture, the arches 
of Gothic vaults; which arches tranfverfing from one an¬ 
gle to another, diagonal wife, form a crofs between the 
other arches, which make the fides of the fquare, of which 
the arches are diagonals. Harris. 
To BRANCH, v. n. To fpread in branches.—They were 
trained together in their childhoods, and there rooted be¬ 
twixt them fuch an affection, which cannot choofe but 
branch now. Shakcfpeare. 
Straight as a line in beauteous order flood 
Of oaks unfnorn a venerable wood ; 
Frefti was the grafs beneath, and ev’ry tree 
At diftance planted, in a due degree, 
Their branching arms in air, with equal fpace, 
Stretch’d to their neighbours with a long embrace. Drjd. 
To fpread into feparate and diftinft parts and fubdivifions. 
—The Alps at the one end, and the long range of Appe- 
nines that paffes through the body of it, branch out, on all 
fides, into feveral different divifions. Addijon .— To fpeak 
diffufively, or with the diftinftion of the parts of a dif- 
courle. To have horns (hooting out into antlers: 
The fwift (tag from under ground 
Bore up his branching head. Milton. 
To BRANCH, v. a. To divide as into branches.—The 
fpirits of things animate are all continued within them- 
felves, and are branched into canals, as blood is; and the 
fpirits have not only branches, but certain cells or feats, 
where the principal fpirits do refide. Bacon. —To adorn 
with needle-work, reprefenting flowers and fprigs: 
In robe of lily white Ihe was array’d, 
That from her ftio.ulder to her heel down raught, 
The train whereofioofe far behind her ftray’d, 
Branched with gold and pearl, mod richly wrought, Spenfer. 
BRAN'CHER, f. One that (hoots out into branches.— 
If their child be not fuch a fpeedy fpreader and brancher, 
like the vine, yet he may yield, with a little longer ex¬ 
pectation, as ufeful and more fober fruit than the other. 
Wotlon.—[Branchitr , Fr.] In falconry, a young hawk.—I 
enlarge my difeourfe to the obfervation of the eires, the 
brancher , and the two forts of lentners. Walton. 
BRAN'CHI A,y. [@§01'%©', of branchii r, Lat. the throat.] 
The gills of fifties, which are compofed of cartilages and 
membranes in the form of a leaf, which ferve inficad of 
lungs to refpire by. 
BRAN'CHID^E, in Grecian antiquity, priefts of the 
temple of Apollo, which was at Didymus in Ionia, a pro¬ 
vince of Leffer Afia, towards the JE gean Sea, upon the 
frontiers of Caria. They opened to Xerxes the temple of 
Apollo, the riches whereof lie took away. After which, 
thinking it unfafe to (lay in Greece, they fled to Sogdiana, 
on the other fide of the Cafpian Sea, upon the frontiers of 
Perfia, where they built a city, called by their own name . 
but they did not cfcape the puniftiment of their crime;. 
for Alexander the Great having conquered Darius king of 
Perfia, and being informed of their treachery, put them 
all to the fword, and razed their city, thus punifiiing the 
impiety of the fathers in their polterity. 
BRAN'CHIDES, or Branch us, a name of Apollo, 
who was fo called from one Branchus, a young'man that 
this god was fond of, and to whom he had erected a tem¬ 
ple, whofe priefts were called Branchidse. Strabo. 
BRAN'CHINESS, /! Full of branches. 
BRANCHIOS'TEGI, f. in ichthyology, a term ufed 
to exprefs one of the general clafles of fillies ; the charac¬ 
ters of which are, that the rays of the fins are of a bony 
fubftance ; but thefe fifli have no bones or oflicula at the 
branchiae, as the malacopterygious and acanthopterygious 
fillies have. 
BRANCH'LESS, adj. Without (hoots or boughs. With¬ 
out any valuable product ; naked: 
If I lofe mine lronour, 
I lofe myfelf; better 1 were not yours, 
Than yours fo branchlfs. Shakcfpeare. 
BRAN'CHY, adj. Full of branches; fpreading: 
Trees on trees o’erthrown 
Fall crackling round him, and the forefts groan; 
Sudden full twenty on the plain are (trow’d. 
And lopp’d and lighten’d of their branchy load, Pcpe. 
BRANCION', a town of France, in the department of 
the Saoneand Loire: one league and ahalf weft of Tournus. 
BRANCOVAN', a town of European Turkey, in the 
province of Walachia: twenty-eight miles N. of Nicopoli. 
BRANCOURT', a town of France, in the department 
of the Aifne : ten miles weft of Laon. 
BRANCZY'CE, a town of Lithuania, in the province 
of Novogrodek : ten miles north of Sluck. 
BRAND, f. \_brand, Sax.] A (tick lighted, or fit to be 
lighted, in the fire : 
He that parts us (hall bring a brand from lieav’n, 
And fire us hence. Shakfp-are. 
[ Brando , Ital. brandar , Runic.] A fword in old language : 
They, looking back, all th ! eaftern fide beheld 
Of Paradife, fo late their happy feat! 
Wav’d ower by that flaming brand ; the gate 
With dreadful faces throng’d, and fiery arms. Milton. 
A thunderbolt: 
The fire omnipotent prepares the brand , 
By Vulcan wrought, and arms his potent hand. Granville. 
A mark made by burning a criminal with a hot iron, to 
note him as infamous; a ftigma.—Clerks convict fhopld 
be burned in the hand, both becaufe they might tafte of 
fome corporal punilhment, and that they might carry a 
brand of infamy. Bacon. —Any note of infamy : 
Where did his wit on learning fix a brand, 
And rail at arts he did not underftand ? Dryden. 
To BRAND, v. a. [branden , Dutch.] To maik with a 
brand, or note of infamy : 
Have I liv’d thus long a wife, a true one, 
Never yet branded with fufpicion ? Shakcfpeare. 
BRAND, a town of Germany, in the circle of Upper ( 
Saxony, and territory of Erzgebirg, chiefly inhabited bjf 
miners : two miles fouth of Freyberg. 
BRANDA'NO, a river of Italy, which runs into the 
Gulf of Tarento, ten miles fouth of Caftellanetta, in the 
territory of Naples. 
BRAND A'ON, a oonfiderable town in the ifland of Java. 
BRAN'DF.BOURG, a town of Pruftia, in the province 
of Natangen, near the Frifche-Haff, chiefly inhabited by 
fiftiermen: twelve miles fouth-weft of Konigfberg. 
BRANDE'IS, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Ko- 
nigingralz: twenty-one miles fouth-eaft of Konigingratz. 
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