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Anything consisting of two leaves. Especially:

To divide; to cleave in two. [Obs.] Spenser.

as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off. Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued. Bp. Burnet. I have discontinued school Above a twelvemonth. Shak. Taught the Greek tongue, discontinued before in these parts the space of seven hundred year…

To leave out of account; to take no notice of. [R.] Of the three opinions (I discount Brown's). Sir W. Hamilton.

To go ashore out of a ship or boat; to leave a ship; to debark. And, making fast their moorings, disembarked. Cowper.

To deprive of exercise; to leave untrained. [Obs.] By disexercising and blunting our abilities. Milton.

To leave; to quit; to cease to haunt. Halliwell.

To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away. He dismissed the assembly. Acts xix. 41. Dismiss their cares when they dismiss their flock. Cowper. Though he soon dismissed himself from state affairs. Dryden.

The act dismissing or sending away; permission to leave; leave to depart; dismissal; as, the dismission of the grand jury.

To separate, to open; to cleave.

To deprive of inhabitants; to depopulate. Leave the land dispeopled and desolate. Sir T. More. A certain island long before dispeopled . . . by sea rivers. Milton.

Ordering; regulation; adjustment; management; government; direction. The execution leave to high disposal. Milton.

To outstrip by as much as a distance (see Distance, n., 3); to leave far behind; to surpass greatly. He distanced the most skillful of his contemporaries. Milner.

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.

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

Show to the sun their waved coats dropped with gold. Milton. To drop a vessel (Naut.), to leave it astern in a race or a chase; to outsail it.