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A trailing branch which is disposed to take root at the end or at the joints; a stole.

A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil. P. Henderson.

To escape or stretch beyond proper limits, as the branches of a plant; to spread widely apart; to shoot too far or widely in growth. Trim off the small, superfluous branches on each side of the hedge that straggle too far out. Mortimer.

that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves. Brandle & C.

That branch of geology which treats of the arrangement and succession of strata.

A genus of bacilli occurring of the form of long, smooth and apparently branched threads, either straight or twisted.

Well versed in any branch of learning; qualified by study; learned; as, a man well studied in geometry. I shrewdly suspect that he is little studied of a theory of moral proportions. Burke.

Any particular branch of learning that is studied; any object of attentive consideration. The Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament, are her daily study. Law. The proper study of mankind is man. Pope.

Placed under the axil, or angle formed by the branch of a plant with the stem, or a leaf with the branch.

so placed as to have a common angle at the vertex, the opposite sides not being parallel. Brande & C.

Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the liver; -- applied to the interlobular branches of the portal vein.

A division of that which is individual. An individual can not branch itself into subindividuals. Milton.

ll reap shame and loss thereby; if thou payest nothing, they will count thee a sucker, no branch. Fuller.

Woody in the lower part of the stem, but with the yearly branches herbaceous, as sage, thyme, hyssop, and the like.

The powdered leaves, peduncles, and young branches of certain species of the sumac plant, used in tanning and dyeing. Poison sumac. (Bot.) See under Poison.

Coming as something additional or extraneous; coming afterwards. That branch of belief was in him supervenient to Christian practice. Hammond. Divorces can be granted, a mensa et toro, only for supervenient causes. Z. Swift.

llar supports a structure; an abutment supports an arch; the trunk of a tree supports the branches.

Situated above the branchiæ; -- applied especially to the upper division of the gill cavity of bivalve mollusks.

Situated over, or on the dorsal side of, the liver; -- applied to the branches of the hepatic veins.

ounced or abjures the supremacy of the pope in ecclesiastical or temporal affairs. [Eng.] Brande & C.