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Forked or branched like a pair of forceps; constructed so as to open and shut like a pair of forceps. Sir T. Browne.

One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow. Let it fall . . . though the fork invade The region of my heart. Shak. A thunderbolt with three forks. Addison.

Formed into a forklike shape; having a fork; dividing into two or more prongs or branches; furcated; bifurcated; zigzag; as, the forked lighting. A serpent seen, with forked tongue. Shak.

Having the ends forked or branched, and the ends of the branches terminating abruptly as if cut off; -- said of an ordinary, especially of a cross.

ing raised ribs that form continuations of the rails, to guide the wheels where one track branches from another or crosses it.

The act of stripping, as trees, of leaves or branches; a kind of pruning. Evelyn.

The pulpy, edible seed vessels of certain plants, especially those grown on branches above ground, as apples, oranges, grapes, melons, berries, etc. See 3.

Pertaining to a shrub or shrubs; branching like a shrub; shrubby; shrublike; as, a fruticose stem. Gray.

Forked; branching like a fork; as, furcate twigs.

A branching like a. fork.

The language of the Gaels, esp. of the Highlanders of Scotland. It is a branch of the Celtic.

That division of elasmobranch fishes which includes the sharks.

n or to his principles and method of treating diseases. Dunglison. Galenic pharmacy, that branch of pharmacy which relates to the preparation of medicines by infusion, decoction, etc., as distinguished from those which are chemically prepared.

The branch of physical science which treats of dynamical elecricity, or the properties and effects of electrical currents.

A wreath of chaplet made of branches, flowers, or feathers, and sometimes of precious stones, to be worn on the head like a crown; a coronal; a wreath. Pope.

nealogical tree, a family lineage or genealogy drawn out under the form of a tree and its branches.

That branch of applied mathematics which determines, by means of observations and measurements, the figures and areas of large portions of the earth's surface, or the general figure and dimenshions of the earth; or that branch of surveying in which the curvature of the earth is taken into account, as in the surveys of…

The branch of science which treats of the formation of the earth.

That branch of mathematics which investigates the relations, properties, and measurement of solids, surfaces, lines, and angles; the science which treats of the properties and relations of magnitudes; the science of the relations of space.

An organ for aquatic respiration; a branchia. Fishes perform respiration under water by the gills. Ray.