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Persistent portions of a calyx or corolla; also, leaves which do not disarticulate from the stem, and hence remain for a long time.

To cover or overspread with, or as with, leaves. [R.] Howell.

iling, for the propose of extracting medicinal qualities; to soak. One scruple of dried leaves is infused in ten ounces of warm water. Coxe.

Into, or towards, the interior, away from the coast. Cook. The greatest waves of population have rolled inland from the east. S. Turner.

An engraving, carving, or inscription. [Obs.] On his gravestone this insculpture. Shak.

In an inseparable manner or condition; so as not to be separable. Bacon. And cleaves through life inseparably close. Cowper.

One or more separate leaves inserted in a volume before binding; as: (a) A portion of the printed sheet in certain sizes of books which is cut off before folding, and set into the middle of the folded sheet to complete the succession of paging; -- also called offcut. (b) A page or pages of advertisements inserted.…

A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.

Situated within or between the axils of leaves.

ct reciprocally, so as to augment, diminish, or otherwise affect one another; -- said of waves, rays of light, heat, etc. See Interference, 2.

onditions, of two streams of light, or series of pulsations of sound, or, generally, two waves or vibrations of any kind, producing certain characteristic phenomena, as colored fringes, dark bands, or darkness, in the case of light, silence or increased intensity in sounds; neutralization or superposition of waves gene…

At the same node with opposite or whorled leaves, but occupying a position between their places of attachment.

A leaf inserted between other leaves; a blank leaf inserted, as in a book.

To insert a leaf or leaves in; to bind with blank leaves inserted between the others; as, to interleave a book.

interminable space or duration; interminable sufferings. That wild interminable waste of waves. Grainger.

The space between two nodes or points of the stem from which the leaves properly arise. H. Spenser.

whose symmetry is destroyed by local causes, as when leaflets are interposed among the leaves in a pinnate leaf.

Rolled inward from the edges; -- said of leaves in vernation, or of the petals of flowers in æstivation. Gray.

and in chariots, and also contests in music and poetry. The prize was a garland of pine leaves.

A plant of the genus Hedera (H. helix), common in Europe. Its leaves are evergreen, dark, smooth, shining, and mostly five-pointed; the flowers yellowish and small; the berries black or yellow. The stem clings to walls and trees by rootlike fibers. Direct The clasping ivy where to climb. Milton. Ye myrtles brown, with…