branch (1 peculiar to S.; in AYL. IV. ii. 5 there is a ref. to the palm-branch and to the division of a deer's horn called a ‘branch’)
1.
pl. applied to the human hands
Tit. II. iv. 18
“made thy body bare Of
her two branches.”
2.
division, section,
part
Err. V. i. 106
“a branch and parcel of
mine oath,”
Mer.V. II. ii. 68
“branches of
learning,”
Ham. V. i. 12, Cym. V. v. 384.
