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Webster 1913 Edition


Branchy

Branch′y

,
Adj.
Full of branches; having wide-spreading branches; consisting of branches.
Beneath thy
branchy
bowers of thickest gloom.
J. Scott.

Webster 1828 Edition


Branchy

BR'ANCHY

,
Adj.
Full of branches; having wide spreading branches.

Definition 2024


branchy

branchy

English

Adjective

branchy (comparative branchier or more branchy, superlative branchiest or most branchy)

  1. Having many branches.
    • 1795, William Blake, The Book of Los, Chapter II, lines 92-4, in Blake: The Complete Poems, 3rd edition, Routledge, 2007, p. 288,
      [] there grew / Branchy forms, organizing the Human / Into finite inflexible organs,
    • 1842, Alfred Tennyson, "Sir Galahad" lines 58-60,
      No branchy thicket shelter yields; / But blessèd forms in whistling storms / Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields.
    • 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter 25,
      [] the trees blew steadfastly one way, never writhing round, and scarcely tossing back their boughs once in an hour; so continuous was the strain bending their branchy heads northward []
    • 1879, Gerard Manley Hopkins, "Duns Scotus's Oxford" in Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, edited by Robert Bridges, London: Humphrey Milford, no date, p. 41,
      Towery city and branchy between towers;
    The shrub was too branchy. It needed to be pruned so it would have a few strong shoots instead of many weak ones.
  2. Tending to branch frequently.

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