Branch (2)

Branch

(1) A light consisting of three tapers, as an emblem of the Holy Trinity, carried in funeral processions and set upon the coffin when it rested.

(2) A large cumbrous corona, consisting of branches of brass for lights, used in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, in England. Few specimens now remain; one still hangs in the sanctuary of Chichester.

⇒Bible concordance for BRANCH.

⇒Definition of branch

⇒See also the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia.