Branch \Branch\, n.; pl. {Branches}. [OE. braunche, F. branche, fr. LL. branca claw of a bird or beast of prey; cf. Armor. brank branch, bough.] 1. (Bot.) A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant.
2. 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.
3. Any member or part of a body or system; a distinct article; a section or subdivision; a department. ``Branches of knowledge.'' --Prescott.
It is a branch and parcel of mine oath. --Shak.
4. (Geom.) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance; as, the branches of an hyperbola.
5. A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line; as, the English branch of a family.
His father, a younger branch of the ancient stock. --Carew.
6. (Naut.) A warrant or commission given to a pilot, authorizing him to pilot vessels in certain waters.
{Branches of a bridle}, two pieces of bent iron, which bear the bit, the cross chains, and the curb.
{Branch herring}. See {Alewife}.
{Root and branch}, totally, wholly.
Syn: Bough; limb; shoot; offshoot; twig; sprig.
Branch \Branch\, a. Diverging from, or tributary to, a main stock, line, way, theme, etc.; as, a branch vein; a branch road or line; a branch topic; a branch store.
Branch \Branch\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Branched}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Branching}.] 1. To shoot or spread in branches; to separate into branches; to ramify.
2. 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. --Spectator.
Branch \Branch\, v. t. 1. To divide as into branches; to make subordinate division in.
2. 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. --Spenser.
"Between Christmas and New Year's, you might cut back to what you think is the bare minimum," says Thomas Barman, senior vice president of foreign exchange at Credit Suisse's New York branch.
His clothes caught the eye of the fussy and discriminating Chambre Syndicale, which in 1988 unanimously elected him a member of the ready-to-wear branch.
It is trying to agree redundancy with 150 branch managers within the next few months, and 120 computer and 80 clerical staff are also affected.
The new criminal-contempt complaint reiterates the government's allegations that Mr. Eyerman instructed a First Jersey branch manager to conceal and destroy documents to disrupt the efforts of a court-appointed monitor, Benjamin L. Lubin.
He said the bank is gradually centralizing customer credit reviews to give branch employees more time to sell its services.
Whitehall is half owned by members of the de Gunzburg branch of the Bronfman family of Canada, heirs to the Seagram Ltd. distilling fortune, and half by the Moross family of London, which has extensive financial services interests.
Although Ford's First Nationwide unit is based in San Francisco and is the nation's sixth-largest thrift, its California branch network is relatively small, with only 132 of its total of 348 branches.
Ostensibly, he was in town as part of a long-scheduled program to impart U.S. management skills to the Soviet executive branch.
All of the Western firms sent letters of welcome said they would proceed with their applications, despite the high costs of setting up a Korean branch.
The account balance remains on the branch's books, even though the deposits are moved to the private bank. The double counting is washed out at some point further down the accounting stream.
In addition to the Manhattan flagship, the chain famous for Thanksgiving Day parades operates a branch at the Garden State Plaza in Paramus, N.J., which the company says outsells all competitors in suburbia.
"The judge, in effect and incorrectly, usurped the function of the executive branch of the state government," the court said.
Although a two-year U.S. Customs undercover sting operation was based in Tampa, no local employees were named in the indictments. Hancock said the branch continues normal operations.
It isn't tied down or anything," Bill Gibson, 58, said as he hauled away a 12-foot-long branch that had fallen from a tree next to his undamaged trailer house in Venice, near the mouth of the Mississippi River.
"We think the exempt-organizations branch of the IRS has discriminated against the church and individual Scientologists," said church spokeswoman Sylvia Stanard.
The agent is Savills (031-226 6961) and the vendor is the Lochnaw Castle and Estate Trust, set up by an Australian branch of the family to restore the castle.
An official of the Bank of China's Shanghai branch confirmed the center is "under consideration," but wouldn't elaborate, the Kyodo news agency of Japan said.
Big banks generally paid at low rates because foreign loan-loss reserves and overseas branch losses hurt U.S. results.
The agreement requires the new bank to sell branch buildings, deposits and small-business and consumer loans in 116 Western markets where the two banks had competed.
Bank of New England Corp. on Friday announced plans to sell or consolidate more than 95 branch offices to help streamline the financially troubled company.
Several Serbian firms said Monday they are severing all economic ties with Slovenian firms and closing down branch offices there.
The court is a branch of the 23-nation Council of Europe, to which Britain belongs, and its decisions are not binding but rarely are ignored.
No, he doesn't plan to branch into other types of floor coverings or to open his own stores, Mr. Shaw says, and he doubts that Shaw will buy a fiber company.
Berliner Handels- & Frankfurter Bank, the prestigious merchant bank, opened up a London branch in September and is looking to expand in France, Italy and Spain.
The astonishing story of what happened to Mr. Olson, a former mid-level Justice Department official, shows the brutal excesses of the most powerful branch.
'There was little incentive for a foreign financial institution to set up a branch in Madeira if it was going to be taxed on the earnings of that branch in its home country.
'There was little incentive for a foreign financial institution to set up a branch in Madeira if it was going to be taxed on the earnings of that branch in its home country.
The action instigated a turf battle in Congress and in the executive branch, which ultimately has meant even more money for Maglev.
Farmers State is to become a branch of Farmers & Merchants National Bank of Merkel, Texas.
Hofmeyer has been on a hunger strike since he was detained by police last week during a protest at a branch of First National Bank, sponsor of an ongoing tour by an international rugby team which activists say violates the sports boycott of South Africa.