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A kind of latticework formed of, or covered with, vines, branches of trees, or other plants, for shade; a bower. Sir P. Sidney.

ing a tree; becoming woody in stalk; dendritic; having crystallizations disposed like the branches and twigs of a tree. "Arborescent hollyhocks." Evelyn.

A mode of propagating trees by bending branches to the ground, and covering the small shoots with earth; layering. Chambers.

A genus of copepod Crustacea, parasitic of fishes; a fish louse. See Branchiura.

The independent variable upon whose value that of a function depends. Brande & C.

A branch of a tree.

Without any arm or branch.

That branch of hplwaldry which treats of coat armor. The science of heraldry, or, more justly speaking, armory, which is but one branch of heraldry, is, without doubt, of very ancient origin. Cussans.

great arms of infantry, cavalry, and artillery, together with more or less numerous other branches, such as engineers, medical corps, etc., besides the staff organizations such as those of the pay and subsistence departments.

Those branches of learning which are taught in the academical course of colleges; as, master of arts. In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts. Pope. Four years spent in the arts (as they are called in colleges) is, perhaps, laying too laborious a foundation. Goldsmith.

One of the orders of Branchiopoda. See Branchiopoda.

The men and officers of that branch of the army to which the care and management of artillery are confided.

A small membranous bladder or tube in which are inclosed the seedlike reproductive particles or sporules of lichens and certain fungi.

Ashlar when in thin slabs and made to serve merely as a case to the body of the wall. Brande & C.

genus of perennial plants belonging to the natural order Liliaceæ, and having erect much branched stems, and very slender branchlets which are sometimes mistaken for leaves. Asparagus racemosus is a shrubby climbing plant with fragrant flowers. Specifically: The Asparagus officinalis, a species cultivated in gardens.…

A member of an assembly, especially of the lower branch of a state legislature.

ice in the trial and determination of civil and criminal cases; -- usually in the plural. Brande. Wharton. Craig. Burrill.

A fossil plant from the coal formations of Europe and America, now regarded as the branchlets and foliage of calamites.

A genus of ophiurans having the arms much branched.

A rich kind of satin manufactured in India. Brande & C.