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ition's ladder. Shak. Fish ladder. See under Fish. -- Ladder beetle (Zoöl.), an American leaf beetle (Chrysomela scalaris). The elytra are silvery white, striped and spotted with green; the under wings are rose-colored. It feeds upon the linden tree. -- Ladder handle, an iron rail at the side of a vertical fixed ladd…

An annual weed (Polygonum Persicaria), having a lanceolate leaf with a dark spot in the middle.

The blade of a leaf; the broad, expanded portion of a petal or sepal of a flower. Gray.

A broad-leafed fossil alga.

narrow, tapering to a point at the apex, and sometimes at the base also; as, a lanceolate leaf.

lted and strained. Lard oil, an illuminating and lubricating oil expressed from lard. -- Leaf lard, the internal fat of the hog, separated in leaves or masses from the kidneys, etc.; also, the same melted.

Growing from the stem by the side of a leaf; as, a laterifolious flower.

To send out leaves; to leaf; -- often with out. G. Fletcher.

Bearing, or having, a leaf or leaves; having folds; -- used in combination; as, a four-leaved clover; a two-leaved gate; long- leaved.

Leafless. [Obs.] Carew.

pl. of Leaf.

Leafiness.[Obs.]

Leafy. [Obs.] Chapman.

e exterior marked with scars, mostly in quincunx order, produced by the separation of the leafstalks.

A leafy shelter; a place covered with foliage. [Obs.] Behind the mill, under a levesel. Chaucer.

s of cellular, flowerless plants, (technically called Lichenes), having no distinction of leaf and stem, usually of scaly, expanded, frond-like forms, but sometimes erect or pendulous and variously branched. They derive their nourishment from the air, and generate by means of spores. The species are very widely distrib…

The thin and scarious projection from the upper end of the sheath of leaf of grass.

s), having a raceme of nodding, fragrant, white flowers. -- Lily pad, the large floating leaf of the water lily. [U. S.] Lowell. -- Tiger lily (Bot.), Lilium tigrinum, the sepals of which are blotched with black. -- Turk's-cap lily (Bot.) Lilium Martagon, a red lily with recurved sepals; also, the similar American l…

e a line; narrow; of the same breadth throughout, except at the extremities; as, a linear leaf. Linear differential (Math.), an equation which is of the first degree, when the expression which is equated to zero is regarded as a function of the dependent variable and its differential coefficients. -- Linear equation (…

Marked longitudinally with depressed parallel lines; as, a lineate leaf.