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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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• 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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• Leaf, Walter

  Litt.D. (b. 1852) Scholar and translator. The Iliad of Homer translated into English Prose (with A...

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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. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• 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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• silver-leaf boree

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

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