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Branching so that the stem is lost in branches, as in most deciduous trees. Gray.

The act of giving birth; parturition; the expulsion or extraction of a fetus and its membranes.

a mucilaginous or oily nature, supposed to be capable of soothing an inflamed nervous membrane, or protecting i

A stone or mineral on or in which are branching figures resembling shrubs or trees, produced by a foreign mineral, usually an oxide of manganese, as in the moss agate; also, a crystallized mineral having an arborescent form, e. g., gold or silver; an arborization.

A division of the Turbellaria in which the digestive cavity gives off lateral branches, which are often divided into smaller branchlets.

A member of the Chamber of Deputies. [France] Chamber of Deputies, one of the two branches of the French legilative assembly; -- formerly called Corps Législatif. Its members, called deputies, are elected by the people voting in districts.

A group of fishlike animals including the Marsipobranchiata and Leptocardia.

poma, etc. They have permanent gill openings, but no external gills; -- called also Cryptobranchiata. [Written also Derotrema.]

e forms and relations of parts, but not of their textures. -- Descriptive geometry, that branch of geometry. which treats of the graphic solution of problems involving three dimensions, by means of projections upon auxiliary planes. Davies & Peck (Math. Dict. ) -- De*scrip"tive*ly, adv. -- De*scrip"tive*ness, n.…

in a square between two vertical lines. The theory of determinants forms a very important branch of modern mathematics.

.), the common British starfish (Asterias rubens); -- also applied to a sponge with stout branches. [Prov. Eng., Irish & Scot.] -- Devil's riding-horse (Zoöl.), the American mantis (Mantis Carolina). -- The Devil's tattoo, a drumming with the fingers or feet. "Jack played the Devil's tattoo on the door with his boot h…

That branch of natural philosophy which treats of the properties of sound as affected by passing through different mediums; -- called also diaphonics. See the Note under Acoustics.

That branch of logic which teaches the rules and modes of reasoning; the application of logical principles to discursive reasoning; the science or art of discriminating truth from error; logical discussion.

That branch of philology which is devoted to the consideration of dialects. Beck.

olloids, by means of their unequal diffusion, especially through natural or artificial membranes.

To separate, prepare, or obtain, by dialysis or osmose; to pass through an animal membrane; to subject to dialysis. [Written also dialyse.]

Prepared by diffusion through an animal membrane; as, dialyzed iron.

A dividing membrane or thin partition, commonly with an opening through it.

with dice. See Die, n. Dice coal, a kind of coal easily splitting into cubical fragments. Brande & C.

To separate into two parts; to branch dichotomously; to become dichotomous.