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disbranch, v.|dɪsˈbrɑːnʃ, -æ-|
[f. dis- 7 a + branch n.: cf. OF. desbrancher, -chir (in Godef.), f. des- (dis- 4) + brancher, f. branche branch n.]
1. trans. To cut or break off the branches of; to deprive or strip of branches.
1575Art of Planting 15 If the trees be great..ye must disbranch them afore ye set them agayne. 1600Surflet Countrie Farme iii. xlvi. 517 It is best to disbranch and prune trees when the sap beginneth to rise vp into them. 1719London & Wise Compl. Gard. ix. i. 279 Peas that are disbranched, bear a more plentiful Crop than others. 1889G. G. A. Murray Gobi or Shamo xiv. 228 The fury of the explosion had uprooted and disbranched the..trees.
2. To cut or break off, as a branch; to sever.
1605Shakes. Lear iv. ii. 34 She that herself will sliver and disbranch From her material sap, perforce must wither And come to deadly use. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. viii. §28 (R.) That duke-dome..disbranched from France since the year eight hundred eighty-fiue, was againe rent away. 1796Lamb Let. Wks. (1840) 14, I conjecture it is ‘disbranched’ from one of your embryo hymns. 1865Swinburne Atalanta 126 All this flower of life Disbranched and desecrated miserably.
†3. intr. To branch off, spring out of. rare.
1622Peacham Compl. Gent. 162 Cavendish: out of which familie disbranched that famous Travailer, Master Thomas Cavendish.
Hence disˈbranched ppl. a., disˈbranching vbl. n.
1616Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme 401 This disbranching must be done in the decrease of the Moone. 1843Zoologist I. 305 An old disbranched fir. |