transferred. Anything analogous to a limb of a tree, in being a lateral extension or subdivision of a main trunk; e.g. of a mountain range, a…

gen. A narrower portion or part of something projecting, extending, or diverging from the main body.

An arm; esp. an ‘arm’ of the sea or other large body of water. Brace of St. George = medieval Latin brachium Sancti Georgii (Du Cange): the…

A division or single part of (something with) a branched structure, as a plant, blood vessel, nerve, river, etc.; a branch. Also figurative.

concrete. That which divaricates from a centre; a divaricating nerve or vein; a ramification.