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o advice, admonish, or instruct, as a person. Good sir, I do in friendship counsel you To leave this place. Shak.

he affections of; to seek in marriage; to woo. If either of you both love Katharina . . . leave shall you have to court her at your pleasure. Shak.

kind of food used by the natives of Western Africa, made of millet flour with flesh, and leaves of the baobab; -- called also lalo.

To nurse or train in infancy. He that hath been cradled in majesty will not leave the throne to play with beggars. Glanvill.

horror. Blackwood's Mag. Out of the stillness, with gathering creep, Like rising wind in leaves. Lowell.

nowberry, an American plant (Chiogenes hispidula) with white berries and very small round leaves having the flavor of wintergreen.

A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and antiscorbutic.

h the ripple of the water. [Poetic] You numphs called Naiads, of the winding brooks . . . Leave jour crisp channels. Shak.

tem, restraint intermediate between imprisonment and freedom, and liberation on ticket of leave.

A name given to several inconspicuous plants having leaves in whorls of four, as species of Crucianella, Valantia, etc.

op of the stalk a cluster of pendent bell- shaped flowers surmounted with a tuft of green leaves.

Having the leaves or petals arranged in the form of a cross; cruciform.

To contract irregularly; to show wrinkless after being crushed together; as, leaves crumple.

where the audience may promenade or converse during the intermissions; a foyer. Politics leave very little time for the bow window at White's in the day, or for the crush room of the opera at night. Macualay.

A species of Cardamine (C. pratensis), or lady's smock. Its leaves are used in salads. Also, the ragged robin (Lychnis Flos- cuculi).

eetle. (Zoöl.) (a) A small, black flea-beetle (Crepidodera cucumeris), which destroys the leaves of cucumber, squash, and melon vines. (b) The squash beetle. -- Cucumber tree.(a) A large ornamental or shade tree of the genus Magnolia (M. acuminata), so called from a slight resemblance of its young fruit to a small cuc…

A small composite plant with cottony or silky stem and leaves, primarily a species of Gnaphalium, but the name is now given to many plants of different genera, as Filago, Antennaria, etc.; cottonweed.

A hint or intimation. Give them [the servants] their cue to attend in two lines as he leaves the house. Swift.

to crouch; to cringe. [Obs.] Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg, Yea, curb and woo for leave to do him good. Shak.

curls or spirals, as a vine; to be crinkled or contorted; to have a curly appearance; as, leaves lie curled on the ground. Thou seest it [hair] will not curl by nature. Shak.