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A small vein; a veinlet; specifically (Zoöl.), one of the small branches of the veins of the wings in insects.

nd graceful fern (Adiantum Capillus-Veneris) having a slender, black and shining stem and branches. -- Venus's hair stone (Min.), quartz penetrated by acicular crystals of rutile. -- Venus's looking-glass (Bot.), an annual plant of the genus Specularia allied to the bellflower; -- also called lady's looking- glass.…

helminths, together with the nemerteans, annelids, and allied groups. By some writers the branchiopods, the bryzoans, and the tunicates are also included. The name was used in a still wider sense by Linnæus and his followers.

Having thickset tufts of parallel hairs, bristles, or branches.

A decorative design, originally representing vine branches or tendrils, at the head of a chapter, of a manuscript or printed book, or in a similar position; hence, by extension, any small picture in a book; hence, also, as such pictures are often without a definite bounding line, any picture, as an engraving, a photogr…

A long, slender, flexible shoot or branch.

eetle (Zoöl.), any one of several species of beetles which are injurious to the leaves or branches of the grapevine. Among the more important species are the grapevine fidia (see Fidia), the spotted Pelidnota (see Rutilian), the vine fleabeetle (Graptodera chalybea), the rose beetle (see under Rose), the vine weevil, a…

A sprig or branch. [Archaic] Halliwell.

yo, which open into the pharyngeal portion of the alimentary canal, and correspond to the branchial clefts in adult fishes.

xplained; a dictionary or lexicon, either of a whole language, a single work or author, a branch of science, or the like; a word-book.

vised apparatus for developing electric currents by chemical action, and established this branch of electric science; discovered by Volta; as, voltaic electricity.

ound the oral disk. Most of the species have slender, contractile stems, either simple or branched.

To sing in a trilling manner, or with many turns and variations. "Birds on the branches warbling." Milton.

or interweave, one with another, as twigs; to form a network with; to plat; as, to wattle branches.

To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; -- said of a plant or its branches.

Having slender, pendent branches; -- said of trees; as, weeping willow; a weeping ash.

Any tree having pendulous branches.

A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries.

er of two shrubs (Viburnum Lantana, and V. Opulus), so called on account of their whitish branches.

Cf. Tumbleweed. Maunder (Treas. of Bot.) -- Witches' besoms (Bot.), tufted and distorted branches of the silver fir, caused by the attack of some fungus. Maunder (Treas. of Bot.) -- Witches' butter (Bot.), a name of several gelatinous cryptogamous plants, as Nostoc commune, and Exidia glandulosa. See Nostoc. -- Witch…