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adjective

Branching adj. Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches. "Shaded with branching palm."

verb

Branch v. t.

To divide as into branches; to make subordinate division in.

To adorn with needlework representing branches, flowers, or twigs. "The train whereof loose far behind her strayed, Branched with gold and pearl, most richly wrought."

Branch v. i. (past & past part. branched; pres. part. branching)

To shoot or spread in branches; to separate into branches; to ramify.

To divide into separate parts or subdivision.

To branch off, to form a branch or a separate part; to diverge.

To branch out, to speak diffusively; to extend one's discourse to other topics than the main one; also, to enlarge the scope of one's business, etc. "To branch out into a long disputation."

noun

Branching n. The act or state of separation into branches; division into branches; a division or branch. "The sciences, with their numerous branchings."

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Etymology of 'Branching'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Branching" Quotes from Famous Books

... mist And sheets of rain, that drip Crystal beads among the trees. Way above, the branches lash and moan And weave. Below, it is still, Still as the undersea. Soft fern and feathery bracken Loom through the mist Like branching coral, And drifting leaves float down ...

— A Little Window • Jean M. Snyder

... up and looked at the window. The window-frame could be clearly distinguished from the mysteriously and dimly-lighted panes. It is a storm, I thought; and a storm it really was, but it was raging so very far away that the thunder could not be heard; only blurred, long, as it were branching, gleams of lightning flashed continually over the sky; it was not flashing, though, so much as quivering and twitching like the wing of a dying bird. I got up, went to the window, and stood there till morning.... The lightning ...

— The Torrents of Spring • Ivan Turgenev

... upon the Zlotnitskys; their house was a dull one. The very furniture, the red paper with yellow patterns in the drawing-room, the numerous rush-bottomed chairs in the dining-room, the faded wool-work cushions, embroidered with figures of girls and dogs, on the sofa, the branching lamps, and the gloomy-looking portraits on the walls—everything inspired an involuntary melancholy, about everything there clung a sense of chill and flatness. On my arrival in Petersburg, I had thought it my duty ...

— The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories • Ivan Turgenev

... now it clung Until I scarce could see The stealthy pathway overhung By silent tree and tree Which floated in that mystery As—poised in waveless deeps— Branching in worlds below the sea, The ...

— Collected Poems - Volume Two (of 2) • Alfred Noyes

... the dark moon descending behind thy resounding woods. On thy top dwells the misty Loda, the house of the spirits of men. I saw a deer at Crona's stream; a mossy bank he seemed through the gloom, but soon he bounded away. A meteor played round his branching horns; the awful faces of other times looked from the clouds of Crona. These are the signs of Fingal's death. The king of shields is fallen, and Caracul prevails. 'Rise, Comala, from thy rock; daughter of Sarno, rise in tears. The youth of thy love ...

— The Mysteries of All Nations • James Grant

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