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Irving. 4. The diploma or commi ion i ued by the proper authority to a pilot who has pa e pa ed an examination for competency. - 51. A chandelier. Ash.-6. A branched candlestick or candle. This [funeral] proce ion was headed by an acolyte with a cro between two clerks, each of whom carried a peculiar kind of light called "a white branch ," because composed of three tapers shooting up out of one root as it were, being twisted together at the lower end an emblem of the Trinity. Rock , Church of our Fathers, ii. 487. Bastard branch. See bastard . - Branches of ogives, in arch ., the ribs of groined vaults traversing from one angle to another, and forming a cro between the other arches which make the sides of the square of which the branches the diagonals. See arc ogive , under arcl.