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The act or state of separation into branches; division into branches; a division or branch. The sciences, with their numerous branchings. L. Watts.

A fish allied to the turbot (Rhombus levis), much esteemed in England for food; -- called also bret, pearl, prill. See Bret.

a report. (d) To take to an appointed place of deposit or collection; as, to bring in provisions or money for a specified object. (e) To produce, as income. (f) To induce to join. -- To bring off, to bear or convey away; to clear from condemnation; to cause to escape. -- To bring on. (a) To cause to begin. (b) To or…

The bronchial tubes which arise from the branching of the trachea, esp. the subdivision of the bronchi. Dunglison.

One of the subdivisions of the trachea or windpipe; esp. one of the two primary divisions.

oarse; unfeeling; unintelligent. O, let all provocation Take every brutish shape it can devise. Leigh Hunt. Man may . . . render himself brutish, but it is in vain that he would seek to take the rank and density of the brute. I. Taylor.

The color to buff; a light yellow, shading toward pink, gray, or brown. A visage rough, Deformed, unfeatured, and a skin of buff. Dryden.

A clumsy boat, used for conveying provisions, fruit, etc., for sale, to vessels lying in port or off shore.

An idle, worthless fellow, who is without any visible means of support; a dissipated sponger. [Slang, U.S.]

A division of the herbivorous mammals including the hogs and hippopotami; -- so called because the teeth are tuberculated.

t there are many imitations. It has a yellowish brown color, is translucent and hard, but viscous. It is used in medicinal plasters.

The wild Himalayan, or blue, sheep (Ovis burrhel).

The botfly or gadfly of cattle (Hypoderma bovis). See Gadfly.

erbs (Pinguicula) having simple leaves which secrete from their glandular upper surface a viscid fluid, to which insects adhere, after which the margin infolds and the insects are digested by the plant. The species are found mostly in the North Temperate zone.

An apartment in a house where butter, milk and other provisions are kept. All that need a cool and fresh temper, as cellars, pantries, and butteries, to the north. Sir H. Wotton.

A law that is less important than a general law or constitutional provision, and subsidiary to it; a rule relating to a matter of detail; as, civic societies often adopt a constitution and by-laws for the government of their members. In this sense the word has probably been influenced by by, meaning secondary or aside.…

The advisory council of the chief executive officer of a nation; a cabinet council.

A hole in the ground, or hiding place, for concealing and preserving provisions which it is inconvenient to carry. Kane.

litical and social outcasts (Christian Pariahs). They are supposed to be a remnant of the Visigoths.

A curved ridge in the floor of the leteral ventricle of the brain; the calcar avis, hippocampus minor, or ergot.