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The branching forth, as of trees.

To endow with a franchise; to incorporate into a body politic and thus to invest with civil and political privileges; to admit to the privileges of a freeman.

om of a corporation or body politic; investiture with the privileges of free citizens. Enfranchisement of copyhold (Eng. Law), the conversion of a copyhold estate into a freehold. Mozley & W.

One who enfranchises.

Pertaining to the segment between the ceratobranchial and pharyngobranchial in a branchial arch. -- n.

Outside of the branchial arches; -- said of the cartilages thus placed in some fishes.

te. Election by universal suffrage, as modified by the Constitution, is the one crowning franchise of the American people. W. H. Seward.

Release; deliverance; freedom. Spenser.

An order of fishes having an incomplete or reduced branchial apparatus. It includes the sticklebacks, the flutemouths, and Fistularia.

An extensive artificial division of gastropod mollusks, including those that breathe by gills, as contrasted with the Pulmonifera. -- Hy`dro*bran"chi*ate, a.

Pertaining to the segment between the basibranchial and the ceratobranchial in a branchial arch. -- n.

One of the Inferobranchiata.

A suborder of marine gastropod mollusks, in which the gills are between the foot and the mantle.

e gills on the sides of the body, under the margin of the mantle; belonging to the Inferobranchiata.

Below the gills; -- applied to the ventral portion of the pallial chamber in the lamellibranchs.

See Enfranchise.

Between the branchiæ.

Of or pertaining to the Labyrinthici. -- n.

One of the Lamellibranchia. Also used adjectively.

A class of Mollusca including all those that have bivalve shells, as the clams, oysters, mussels, etc.