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A stout stem, as of a tree, with the branches lopped off, to produce rapid growth.
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Something constructed in the form of, or considered as resembling, a tree, consisting of a stem, or stock, and branches; as, a genealogical tree.
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A decorative design, originally representing vine branches or tendrils, at the head of a chapter, of a manuscript or printed book, or in a similar position; hence, by extension, any small picture in a book; hence, also, as such pictures are often without a definite bounding line, any picture, as an engraving, a photograph, or the like, which vanishes gradually at the edge.
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One of the similar branches of the framework of a leaf.
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Having three branches or forks; trichotomous.
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A tree which has fallen into a stream so that its branches project above the surface, rising and falling with a rocking or swaying motion in the current.
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A small vein; a veinlet; specifically (Zool.), one of the small branches of the veins of the wings in insects.
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Neuralgia of the sciatic nerve, an affection characterized by paroxysmal attacks of pain in the buttock, back of the thigh, or in the leg or foot, following the course of the branches of the sciatic nerve. The name is also popularly applied to various painful affections of the hip and the parts adjoining it. See Ischiadic passion, under Ischiadic.
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A feast held by some branches of the Christian church on the 6th of August, in commemoration of the miraculous change above mentioned.
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One of the small branches of a stag's antler.
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One engaged in the pursuits of learning; a learned person; one versed in any branch, or in many branches, of knowledge; a person of high literary or scientific attainments; a savant.
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A curve of third order, having three infinite branches in one direction and a fourth infinite branch in the opposite direction.
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Having thickset tufts of parallel hairs, bristles, or branches.
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Three times ternate; -- applied to a leaf whose petiole separates into three branches, each of which divides into three parts which each bear three leafiets.
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The main body of anything; as, the trunk of a vein or of an artery, as distinct from the branches.
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An institution organized and incorporated for the purpose of imparting instruction, examining students, and otherwise promoting education in the higher branches of literature, science, art, etc., empowered to confer degrees in the several arts and faculties, as in theology, law, medicine, music, etc. A university may exist without having any college connected with it, or it may consist of but one college, or it may comprise an assemblage of colleges established in any place, with professors for instructing students in the sciences and other branches of learning.
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Of, pertaining to, or designating, the fifth pair of cranial nerves, which divide on each side of the head into three main branches distributed to the orbits, jaws, and parts of the mouth; trifacial.
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Resembling the tail of a squirrel; -- generally said of branches which are close and dense, or of spikes of grass like barley.
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A genus of lichens, most of the species of which have long, gray, pendulous, and finely branched fronds. Usnea barbata is the common bearded lichen which grows on branches of trees in northern forests.
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The stem, or body, of a tree, apart from its limbs and roots; the main stem, without the branches; stock; stalk.
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