Emily Dickinson Lexicon

BRANCH, v.i.

1. To shoot or spread in branches; to ramify; as a plant, or as horns.
2. To divide into separate parts or subdivisions, as a mountain, a stream, or a moral subject; to ramify.
3. To speak diffusively; to make many distinctions or divisions in a discourse.
4. To have horns shooting out. – Milton.