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Growing broader and broader, as a leaf; truncate.

r wedge-shaped instrument of metal, as a steel wedge used in mining, etc. I will go get a leaf of brass, And with a gad of steel will write these words. Shak.

A leaf bud, as distinguished from a flower bud.

A little leaf bud, as the plumule between the cotyledons.

The art or practice of overlaying or covering with gold leaf; also, a thin coating or wash of gold, or of that which resembles gold.

Sword-shaped; resembling a sword in form, as the leaf of the iris, or of the gladiolus.

ine bloom or fine white powder easily rubbed off, as that on a blue plum, or on a cabbage leaf. Gray.

Havig a moist and adhesive or sticky surface, as a leaf or gland.

osed of gold and mercury. -- Gold beater, one whose occupation is to beat gold into gold leaf. -- Gold beater's skin, the prepared outside membrane of the large intestine of the ox, used for separating the leaves of metal during the process of gold-beating. -- Gold beetle (Zoöl.), any small gold-colored beetle of th…

A black, fibrous substance resembling horsehair, obtained from the leafstalks of two kinds of palms, Metroxylon Sagu, and Arenga saccharifera, of the Indian islands. It is used for making cordage. Called also ejoo.

known in England as Guy Fawkes Day. -- Gunpowder tea, a species of fine green tea, each leaf of which is rolled into a small ball or pellet.

he head of a halberd; triangular, with the basal angles or lobes spreading; as, a hastate leaf.

Having six leaves or leaflets.

See Grasshopper, and Frog hopper, Grape hopper, Leaf hopper, Tree hopper, under Frog, Grape, Leaf, and Tree.

A leafless plant, with hollow and rushlike stems. It is of the genus Equisetum, and is allied to the ferns. See Illust. of Equisetum.

One of the flat, leaflike, protective zooids, covering other zooids of certain Siphonophora.

Being or growing on the under side of a leaf, as the fruit dots of ferns.

gular order, so as to "break joints," like tiles or shingles on a roof, the scales on the leaf buds of plants and the cups of some acorns, or the scales of fishes; overlapping each other at the margins, as leaves in æstivation.

Pinnate with a single terminal leaflet.

s, or into that which resembles pearls. [Poetic] Dewdrops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower. Milton.