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branchy, a.|ˈbrɑːnʃɪ, -æ-|
[f. branch n. + -y1.]
1. Bearing branches; full of, covered with, or consisting of branches.
1382Wyclif 2 Kings xvii. 10 And vndir al braunchy tree. 1480Caxton Ovid's Met. xiv. xv, Com to me, into this braunchy wood. 1661K. W. Conf. Charac. (1860) 89 Called arms, for their hard branchey resemblance. 1725Pope Odyss. v. 313 [Trees]..lopp'd and lighten'd of their branchy load. 1820Combe (Dr. Syntax) Consol. i. 134 The cedar, The branchy monarch of the wood. 1850Blackie æschylus I. 35 The outspread olive's branchy shade.
2. transf. Putting forth offshoots, or divisions; wide-spreading, ramifying; also (of deer) bearing horns, antlered.
1606N. Baxter Man Created in Farr S.P. (1848) 238 Within a branchie filme there lyeth the braine. 1676J. Beaumont in Phil. Trans. XI. 731, I have a piece of branchy spar. 1830T. Hamilton C. Thornton (1845) 99 The deer..stood..tossing high their branchy foreheads. 1830Tennyson Talking Oak 273 The fat earth feed thy branchy root. |