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verb

Branch v. i. (past & past part. branched; pres. part. branching)

To shoot or spread in branches; to separate into branches; to ramify.

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."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Branch out" Quotes from Famous Books

... Shall-lat-tos, who reside to the north and Several bands who reside on the Columbia above.- I precured a Sketch of the Columbia and its branches of those people in which they made the river which falls into the Columbia imediately above the falls on the South Side to branch out into 3 branches one of which they make head in Mt.jefferson, one in mount Hood and the other in the S W. range of Mountains and does not water that extensive Country we have heretofore Calculated on. a great portion of that extensive ...

— The Journals of Lewis and Clark • Meriwether Lewis et al

... a fool thing as that? Some fool philosopher with only one shirt to his back said it. Bill Johnson proved how wrong that was to my satisfaction years and years ago. Good old Bill! I wanted to branch out. We had just that one little candy factory and I worked in ...

— Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper • James A. Cooper

... them about still," Godfrey said. "Let us get three or four of the dead ones upon a branch out of their reach as food for the dogs, drag the rest away from the entrance to the tunnel, and bring the others up from below. That will give them, with the three we have shot now, enough for a big meal. Then I should think ...

— Condemned as a Nihilist - A Story of Escape from Siberia • George Alfred Henty