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A genus of Branchiopoda, having a disklike shell, attached by one valve, which is perforated by the peduncle.

The subject matter of instruction; a branch of knowledge. Bp. Wilkins.

peaceable enjoyment of his right; the interruption of a right; as, the disturbance of a franchise, of common, of ways, and the like. Blackstone.

To part into two branches; to become bifid; to fork.

A separation into two parts or branches; a forking; a divergence.

A blind tube branching out of a longer one.

That divines; for divining. Divining rod, a rod, commonly of witch hazel, with forked branches, used by those who pretend to discover water or metals under ground.

A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man. [Obs.] One of the doctors of Italy, Nicholas Macciavel. Bacon.

teacher, a school, or a sect; a principle or position, or the body of principles, in any branch of knowledge; any tenet or dogma; a principle of faith; as, the doctrine of atoms; the doctrine of chances. "The doctrine of gravitation." I. Watts. Articles of faith and doctrine. Hooker. The Monroe doctrine (Politics), a p…

A genus of nudibranchiate mollusks having a wreath of branchiæ on the back.

nt bar to the action. Stephen. -- Double point (Geom.), a point of a curve at which two branches cross each other. Conjugate or isolated points of a curve are called double points, since they possess most of the properties of double points (see Conjugate). They are also called acnodes, and those points where the branc…

y evolutions and exercises; hence, to instruct thoroughly in the rudiments of any art or branch of knowledge; to discipline. He [Frederic the Great] drilled his people, as he drilled his grenadiers. Macaulay.

To let droop or sink. [R.] M. Arnold. Like to a withered vine That droops his sapless branches to the ground. Shak.

A branch vein which drops off from, or leaves, the main lode.

One of an order of priests which in ancient times existed among certain branches of the Celtic race, especially among the Gauls and Britons.

That branch of mechanics which treats of the motion of bodies (kinematics) and the action of forces in producing or changing their motion (kinetics). Dynamics is held by some recent writers to include statics and not kinematics.

The doctrine of purposelessness; a term applied by Haeckel to that branch of physiology which treats of rudimentary organs, in view of their being useless to the life of the organism. To the doctrine of dysteleology, or the denial of final causes, a proof of the real existence of such a thing as instinct must necessari…

One of the dorsal branches of the main bronchi in the lungs of birds.

sting in, choice, or right of choosing; electoral. The independent use of their elective franchise. Bancroft.

That branch of biology which treats of the electrical phenomena of living organisms.