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eeded drupes. The tree has been cultivated for its fruit for thousands of years, and its branches are the emblems of peace. The wood is yellowish brown and beautifully variegated.

A colloquial or humorous name for any science or branch of knowledge. He had a smattering of mechanics, of physiology, geology, mineralogy, and all other ologies whatsoever. De Quincey.

Oak. [Obs.] "A branched ook." Chaucer.

lar; as the ophthalmic, or orbitonasal, nerve, a division of the trigeminal, which gives branches to the lachrymal gland, eyelids, nose, and forehead. Ophthalmic region (Zoöl.), the space around the eyes.

A branch of physiognomy which deduces the knowledge of a person's temper and character from the appearance of the eyes.

That branch of physical science which treats of the nature and properties of light, the laws of its modification by opaque and transparent bodies, and the phenomena of vision.

The branch of botany which treats of orchids.

overnment, an army, a war, etc. This original and supreme will organizes the government. Cranch.

The germ history of the organs and systems of organs, -- a branch of morphogeny. Haeckel.

That branch of biology which treats, in particular, of the organs of animals and plants. See Morphology.

The tribal history of organs, -- a branch of morphophyly. Haeckel.

The branch of science which treats of ornithichnites. Hitchcock.

That branch of zoölogy which treats of the natural history of birds and their classification.

That branch of science which treats of mountains and mountain systems; orology; as, the orography of Western Europe.

sh twigs (Salix rubra). (b) An American shrub (Cornus stolonifera) which has slender red branches; -- also called osier cornel.

The branch of science which treats of the ear and its diseases.

An offshoot; a branch. [R.] "Some outrunner of the river." Lauson.

That branch of natural history which treats of the origin and functions of eggs.

A comprehensive division of fishes which includes the elasmobranchs and ganoids. [Written also Palæichthyes.]

That branch of paleontology which treats of fossil plants.