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Covered with soft hairs pressed close to the surface, as a leaf; sericeous. Silky oak (Bot.), a lofty Australian tree (Grevillea robusta) with silky tomentose lobed or incised leaves. It furnishes a valuable timber.

Of or pertaining to silver; made of silver; as, silver leaf; a silver cup.

Without subdivisions; entire; as, a simple stem; a simple leaf.

r key; -- used for opening locks to which it has not been especially fitted. -- Skeleton leaf, a leaf from which the pulpy part has been removed by chemical means, the fibrous part alone remaining. -- Skeleton proof, a proof of a print or engraving, with the inscription outlined in hair strokes only, such proofs bein…

To prepare a skeleton of; also, to reduce, as a leaf, to its skeleton. Pop. Sci. Monthly.

small moth whose larva eats the parenchyma of leaves, leaving the skeleton; as, the apple-leaf skeletonizer.

ary damages; damages beyond a full compensation for the actual injury done. Burrill. Greenleaf. -- Smart ticket, a certificate given to wounded seamen, entitling them to smart money. [Eng.] Brande & C.

conforming with all legal requirements; as, probate in solemn form. Burrill. Jarman. Greenleaf. Solemn League and Covenant. See Covenant, 2.

A fleshy spike of flowers, usually inclosed in a leaf called a spathe.

A special involucre formed of one leaf and inclosing a spadix, as in aroid plants and palms. See the Note under Bract, and Illust. of Spadix.

Becoming hard and thorny; tapering gradually to a rigid, leafless point; armed with spines. Gray.

he like, which is nonsexual, but produces spores in countless numbers. In ferns it is the leafy plant, in mosses the capsule. Cf. Oöphore.

or bringing the bottom bed of the base to a nearly square form. It is generally carved in leafage.

Divided into shreds or jags, raised above the plane of the leaf, and not parallel to it; said of a leaf.

Having the teeth bent out of the plane of the lamina; -- said of a leaf.

A little branch which connects a fruit, flower, or leaf with a main branch; a peduncle, pedicel, or petiole; as, the stem of an apple or a cherry.

Embracing the stem with its base; amplexicaul; as a leaf or petiole.

ining to the genus Stenoderma, which includes several West Indian and South American nose-leaf bats.

The stipule of a leaflet. Gray.

Furnished with stipules; as, a stipulate leaf.