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Anything consisting of two leaves. Especially:

To deprive of leaves. [R.] The cankerworms that annually that disleaved the elms. Lowell.

Opening during the day, and closing at night; -- said of flowers or leaves.

Having the corners of the leaves turned down and soiled by careless or long-continued usage; -- said of a book. Statute books before unopened, not dog-eared. Ld. Mansfield.

), a small, bulbous herb of the Lily family (genus Erythronium). It has two shining flat leaves and commonly one large flower. [Written also dog's-tooth violet.]

Shaped like the head of an ax or hatchet, as some leaves, and also certain organs of some shellfish.

Having distinct upper and lower surfaces, as most common leaves. The leaves of the iris are not dorsiventral.

t hairs. "A downy feather." Shak. Plants that . . . have downy or velvet rind upon their leaves. Bacon.

l in drops or small drops, or in a quick succession of drops; as, water dribbles from the eaves.

To fall in drops; as, water drips from the eaves.

portion of a fluid; a small quantity; as, a drop of water. With minute drops from off the eaves. Milton. As dear to me as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart. Shak. That drop of peace divine. Keble.

A branch vein which drops off from, or leaves, the main lode.

An Old World species of Spiræa (S. filipendula), with finely cut leaves.

A genus of low perennial or biennial plants, the leaves of which are beset with gland-tipped bristles. See Sundew. Gray.

A genus of shrubs growing in Australia, having beautiful, hard, dry, evergreen leaves.

An alkaloid obtained from the leaves of an Australian tree (Duboisia myoporoides), and regarded as identical with hyoscyamine. It produces dilation of the pupil of the eye.

Having twelve leaves to a sheet; as, a duodecimo from, book, leaf, size, etc.

t.), a plant (Cineraria maritima); -- so called because of the ashy-white coating of its leaves.

A drop from the eaves; eavesdrop. [R.] Tennyson.

A plant (Zostera marina), with very long and narrow leaves, growing abundantly in shallow bays along the North Atlantic coast.