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A tract of land used for grazing and rearing of horses, cattle, or sheep. See Rancho, 2. [Western U. S.]

A dwelling place of a ranchero.

A herdsman; a peasant employed on a ranch or rancho.

An owner or occupant of, or laborer on, a ranch; a herdsman. [Western U. S.]

A rude hut, as of posts, covered with branches or thatch, where herdsmen or farm laborers may live or lodge at night.

Abranchiate.

A group of annelids, so called because the species composing it have no special organs of respiration.

Without gills.

To make free; to enfranchise. Johnson.

The act of making free; enfranchisement. [R.]

A branch of a river that reënters, or anastomoses with, the main stream; also, less properly, a branch which loses itself in sandy soil. [Australia]

A division of nudibranchiate Mollusca, in which the gills form a wreath or cluster upon the posterior part of the back. See Nudibranchiata, and Doris.

A group of Gastropoda, with limpetlike shells, including the abalone shells and keyhole limpets.

Any division extending like a branch; any arm or part connected with the main body of thing; ramification; as, the branch of an antler; the branch of a chandelier; a branch of a river; a branch of a railway. Most of the branches , or streams, were dried up. W. Irving.

A pilot who has a branch or commission, as from Trinity House, England, for special navigation.

That which shoots forth branches; one who shows growth in various directions.

A system of branches.

A gill; a respiratory organ for breathing the air contained in water, such as many aquatic and semiaquatic animals have.

Of or pertaining to branchiæ or gills. Branchial arches, the bony or cartilaginous arches which support the gills on each side of the throat of fishes and amphibians. See Illustration in Appendix. -- Branchial clefts, the openings between the branchial arches through which water passes.

Furnished with branchiæ; as, branchiate segments.