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Furnished with leaves; leafy; as, a foliate stalk. Foliate curve. (Geom.) Same as Folium.

Having leaves, or leaflike projections; as, a foliated shell.

The process of forming into a leaf or leaves.

Producing leaves. [Written also foliiferous.]

Formed of sheets each folded once, making two leaves, or four pages; as, a folio volume. See Folio, n., 3.

Having many leaves; leafy.

To quit; to relinquish; to leave. Stay at the third cup, or forego the place. Herbert.

y; to make over without reservation; to resign. To them that list the world's gay shows I leave, And to great ones such folly do forgive. Spenser.

To pass by; to leave. See 1st Forego. For sith [since] I shall forgoon my liberty At your request. Chaucer. And four [days] since Florimell the court forwent. Spenser.

p. p. of Forleave. Chaucer.

To give up; to leave; to abandon. [Obs.] "To forlet sin." Chaucer.

To quit or leave entirely; to desert; to abandon; to depart or withdraw from; to leave; as, false friends and flatterers forsake us in adversity. If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments. Ps. lxxxix. 30.

nondevelopment, or the like; out into notice or view; as, the plants in spring put forth leaves. When winter past, and summer scarce begun, Invites them forth to labor in the sun. Dryden.

on English foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) is a handsome perennial or biennial plant, whose leaves are used as a powerful medicine, both as a sedative and diuretic. See Digitalis. Pan through the pastures oftentimes hath run To pluck the speckled foxgloves from their stem. W. Browne.

A feast given by one about to leave a place. [Obs.] He did at the Dog give me, and some other friends of his, his foy, he being to set sail to-day. Pepys.

piece to the end at which the sound issues; -- called in France cor de chasse. -- French leave, an informal, hasty, or secret departure; esp., the leaving a place without paying one's debts. -- French pie Etym: [French (here used in sense of "foreign") + pie a magpie (in allusion to its black and white color)] (Zoöl.…

An iron cleaver or splitting tool; a frow. [U. S.] Bartlett.

Morsus-ranæ), floating on still water and propagating itself by runners. It has roundish leaves and small white flowers.

The act of stripping, as trees, of leaves or branches; a kind of pruning. Evelyn.

Covered with leaves; leafy; as, a frondent tree. [R.]