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Furnished with branchiæ; as, branchiate segments.

Fullness of branches.

Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches. Shaded with branching palm. Milton.

tomostraca; -- so named from the feet of branchiopods having been supposed to perform the function of gills. It includes the fresh-water genera Branchipus, Apus, and Limnadia, and the genus Artemia found in salt lakes. It is also called Phyllopoda. See Phyllopoda, Cladocera. It is sometimes used in a broader sense.…

Full of branches; having wide-spreading branches; consisting of branches. Beneath thy branchy bowers of thickest gloom. J. Scott.

Any minute fungus which produces a burnt appearance in plants. The brands are of many species and several genera of the order Pucciniæi.

One of several spores growing in a series or chain, and produced by one of the fungi called brand.

To burst. [Obs.] And both his yën braste out of his face. Chaucer. Dreadfull furies which their chains have brast. Spenser.

Full, strong muscles, esp. of the arm or leg, muscular strength; a protuberant muscular part of the body; sometimes, the arm. Brawn without brains is thine. Dryden. It was ordained that murderers should be brent on the brawn of the left hand. E. Hall. And in my vantbrace put this withered brawn. Shak.…

cifically: A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment; as, a breach of contract; a breach of promise.

To furnish with breakfast. Milton.

The front of a furnace.

Full of breath; full of odor; fragrant. [Obs.]

To fit or furnish with a breech; as, to breech a gun.

Fresh; brisk; full of life. [Colloq.]

A tribute which tenants paid to their lord, in lieu of bran, which they were obliged to furnish for his hounds.

A piece of bric-a-brac, any curious or antique article of virtu, as a piece of antiquated furniture or metal work, or an odd knickknack.

ck called a clamp. The Assyrians appear to have made much less use of bricks baked in the furnace than the Babylonians. Layard.

A kiln, or furnace, in which bricks are baked or burnt; or a pile of green bricks, laid loose, with arches underneath to receive the wood or fuel for burning them.

Full of bricks; formed of bricks; resembling bricks or brick dust. [R.] Spenser.