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or crown bestowed as a prize for victory or excellence, anciently made or consisting of branches of the laurel. The patriot's honors and the poet's bays. Trumbull.

The principal stem or horn of a stag or other deer, which bears the antlers, or branches.

The second branch of a stag's horn.

In most branches of science bi- in composition denotes two, twice, or doubly; as, bidentate, two-toothed; biternate, doubly ternate, etc.

Consisting of, or including, two chambers, or legislative branches. Bentham.

Pointing two ways, as leaves that grow only on opposite sides of a branch; in two vertical rows.

To divide into two branches.

A forking, or division into two branches.

In Australia, a blind channel leading out from a river; -- sometimes called an anabranch. This is the sense of the word as used in the Public Works Department; but the term has also been locally applied to mere back-waters forming stagnant pools and to certain water channels arising from a source.

The branch of biology which deals with the geographical distribution of animals and plants. It includes both zoögeography and phytogeography. -- Bi`o*ge`o*graph"ic (#), a. -- Bi`o*ge`o*graph"ic*al*ly (#), adv.

The science of life; that branch of knowledge which treats of living matter as distinct from matter which is not living; the study of living tissue. It has to do with the origin, structure, development, function, and distribution of animals and plants.

Palmately branched, with the branches again palmated.

Having, or consisting of, two branches.

de. The whole plant is poisonous, and has a taste at first sweetish and then bitter. The branches are the officinal dulcamara.

ecies of aphis, or plant louse, destructive to fruit trees, infesting both the roots and branches; -- also applied to several other injurious insects.

blossoms or flowers; to bloom; to blow; to flower. The moving whisper of huge trees that branched And blossomed. Tennyson.

mself. . . . It differs from the banyan (Ficus Indica) by sending down no roots from its branches. Tennent.

A tree from which the branches have been cut; a pollard.

A man slave, or one bound to service without wages. "To enfranchise bondmen." Macaulay.

A grove; a thicket; shrubbery; an inclosure formed by branches of trees, regularly or irregularly disposed.