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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.

e semibreve; a breve. See Breve. -- Double octave (Mus.), an interval composed of two octaves, or fifteen notes, in diatonic progression; a fifteenth. -- Double pica. See under Pica. -- Double play (Baseball), a play by which two players are put out at the same time. -- Double plea (Law), a plea alleging several ma…

A government by slaves. [Written also dulocracy.] Hare.

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

tacle, as a stick or post from a hole, water from a cask or well, etc. The drew out the staves of the ark. 2 Chron. v. 9. Draw thee waters for the siege. Nahum iii. 14. I opened the tumor by the point of a lancet without drawing one drop of blood. Wiseman.

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.

An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work.

ortion 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.

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

A wave, or two or three successive waves, of great height and violence, at flood tide moving up an estuary or river; -- commonly called the bore. See Bore.

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.