Leaf, Walter

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• Leaf

  ·vi To shoot out leaves; to produce leaves; to <<Leave>>; as, the trees leaf in May. II. Leaf ·noun...

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• Leaf

  Of a tree. The olive-leaf mentioned Gen. 8:11. The barren fig-tree had nothing but leaves (Matt. 21:...

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• leaf

  To go off with the fall of the leaf; to be hanged: criminals in Dublin being turned off from the out...

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• leaf

  The side of a lock-gate. ...

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• Walter

  ·vi To roll or wallow; to <<Welter>>. ...

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• Bay leaf

  ·- ·see under 3d Bay. ...

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• Five-leaf

  ·noun Cinquefoil; five-finger. ...

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• Leaf-footed

  ·adj Having leaflike expansions on the legs; — said of certain insects; as, the leaf-footed bug (Le...

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• Leaf-nosed

  ·noun Having a leaflike membrane on the nose; — said of certain bats, ·esp. of the genera Phyllosto...

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• Lion's leaf

  ·- A South European plant of the genus Leontice (L. leontopetalum), the tuberous roots of which cont...

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• Strip-leaf

  ·noun Tobacco which has been stripped of its stalks before packing. ...

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• Sumatra leaf

  ·add. ·- A thin, elastic, uniformly light-colored tobacco leaf, raised in Sumatra and extensively us...

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• bitter-leaf

  n. a Tasmanian name for the Native Hop. See hops and hop-bush. ...

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• broad-leaf

  n. a settlers' name for Griselinia littoralis, Raoul; Maori name, Paukatea. 1879. W. N. Blair, `Bu...

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• flax-leaf

  n. the blade of the New ZealandFlax (q.v.). 1884. T. Bracken, `Lays of Maori' p. 69: «Zephyrs sti...

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• jelly-leaf

  n. i.q. Queensland hemp (q.v.). ...

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• leaf-insect

  n. See phasmid. ...

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• walking-leaf

  n. See phasmid. ...

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• Leaf, Leaves

  The word occurs in the Authorized Version either in singular or plural number in three different sen...

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• Bagehot, Walter

  (1826-1877) Economist, s. of a banker, b. at Langport, Somerset, ed. at University Coll., London, a...

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• Bower, or Bowmaker, Walter

  (d. 1449) Was Abbot of Inchcolm, and continued and enlarged Fordun's Scotichronicon. ...

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• Charleton, Walter

  (1619-1707) Miscellaneous writer, ed. at Oxf., was titular physician to Charles I. He was a copious...

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• Goodall, Walter

  (1706?-1766) Historical writer, b. in Banffshire, and ed. King's Coll., Aberdeen, became assistant ...

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• Kennedy, Walter

  (fl. 1500) S. of Lord K., was ed. at Glasgow, and is perhaps best known as Dunbar's antagonist in t...

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• Whitman, Walter or Walt

  (1819-1892) Poet, was b. at Huntingdon, Long Island, New York. His mother was of Dutch descent, and...

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• Raleigh, Walter

  (b. 1861) Biographer and critic. The English Novel (1894), Robert Louis Stevenson (1895), Style (18...

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• silver-leaf boree

  n. i.q. boree (q.v.). ...

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• Besant, Sir Walter

  (1836-1901) Novelist and historian of London, b. at Portsmouth and ed. at King's Coll., London, and...

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• Hook, Walter Farquhar

  (1798-1875) Biographer, s. of James H., Dean of Worcester, b. at Worcester, and ed. at Winchester a...

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• Landor, Walter Savage

  (1775-1864) Poet and miscellaneous author, s. of a physician, was b. at Ipsley Court, Warwick, the ...

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• Map, or Mapes, Walter de

  (fl. 1200) Ecclesiastical statesman and romancist. Most of the facts about him are gleaned from his...

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• Pater, Walter Horatio

  (1839-1894) Essayist and critic, s. of Richard G.P., of American birth and Dutch extraction, a bene...

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• Raleigh, Sir Walter

  (1552?-1618) Explorer, statesman, admiral, historian, and poet, s. of Walter R., of Fardel, Devonsh...

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• Scott, Sir Walter

  (1771-1832) Poet, novelist, and biographer, s. of Walter S., a Writer to the Signet in Edinburgh, a...

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• Smith, Walter Chalmers

  (1824-1908) B. in Aberdeen and ed. there and at Edin., was a minister of the Free Church of Scotlan...

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• Pollock, Walter Herries

  (b. 1850) Poet and miscellaneous writer. The Modern French Theatre (1878), Verse, Old and New, Seal...

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• Prothero, George Walter

  Litt.D., LL.D., etc. (b. 1848) Historian. Life and Times of Simon de Montfort (1877), Memoir of He...

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• Skeat, Rev. Walter William

  Litt.D., LL.D. (b. 1835) Philologist and Early English scholar; has ed. Langland's Piers Plowman, ...

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• Ward of Walter le Poter'

  3 Ed. I. (Rot. Hund. I. p.409). Identified with Cornhill Ward (Beavan, 1.375). ...

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