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Any sticky matter by which the gold leaf is made to adhere.

-- Moving plant (Bot.), a leguminous plant (Desmodium gyrans); -- so called because its leaflets have a distinct automatic motion.

A minute abrupt point, as of a leaf; any small, sharp point or process, terminating a larger part or organ.

abruptly in a sharp point; abruptly tipped with a short and sharp point; as, a mucronate leaf. -- Mu"cro*nate*ly, adv.

Having numerous ribs, or costæ, as the leaf of a plant, or as certain shells and corals.

Having many segments; cleft into several parts by linear sinuses; as, a multifid leaf or corolla.

Having many pairs of leaflets.

Resembling myrtle or myrtle berries; having the form of a myrtle leaf.

Without pubescence; as, a naked leaf or stem; bare, or not covered by the customary parts, as a flower without a perianth, a stem without leaves, seeds without a pericarp, buds without bud scales.

er plates which have received an impression, as by heavy pressure, of an object such as a leaf, lace, or the like. -- Nature worship, the worship of the personified powers of nature. -- To pay the debt of nature, to die.

One of the principal fibrovascular bundles or ribs of a leaf, especially when these extend straight from the base or the midrib of the leaf.

Having veins, or nerves, reticulated or netted; as, a net- veined wing or leaf.

t at the beginning of the flattening process. -- Nose key (Carp.), a fox wedge. -- Nose leaf (Zoöl.), a thin, broad, membranous fold of skin on the nose of many species of bats. It varies greatly in size and form. -- Nose of wax, fig., a person who is pliant and easily influenced. "A nose of wax to be turned every w…

Having the stems leafless.

sitions or make curvatures under the influence of darkness. It is well illustrated in the leaflets of clover and other leguminous plants.

ped, with the attachment at the pointed end; inversely cordate: as, an obcordate petal or leaf.

e curtain whence the fire of the opposite bastion may be discovered. Wilhelm. -- Oblique leaf. (Bot.) (a) A leaf twisted or inclined from the normal position. (b) A leaf having one half different from the other. -- Oblique line (Geom.), a line that, meeting or tending to meet another, makes oblique angles with it. -…

Inversely ovate; ovate with the narrow end downward; as, an obovate leaf.

Having the base, or end next the attachment, narrower than the top, as a leaf.

Having eight leaves to a sheet; as, an octavo form, book, leaf, size, etc.