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Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig. So on the sea shall be set adrift. Dryden. Were from their daily labor turned adrift. Wordsworth.

In a dripping state; as, leaves all adrip. D. G. Mitchell.

Having opposite leaves, as plants which have the leaves so arranged on the stem.

r fasten in any way; to attach physically. Should they [caterpillars] affix them to the leaves of a plant improper for their food. Ray.

Of or pertaining to Africa. African hemp, a fiber prerared from the leaves of the Sanseviera Guineensis, a plant found in Africa and India. -- African marigold, a tropical American plant (Tagetes erecta). -- African oak or African teak, a timber furnished by Oldfieldia Africana, used in ship building. African violet…

same noun preceding and following), as, wave after wave, day after day, several or many (waves, etc.) successively. -- One after another, successively. -- To be after, to be in pursuit of in order to reach or get; as, he is after money.

icans; distilled, it yields mescal. A strong thread and a tough paper are made from the leaves, and the wood has many uses.

occurring in Bengal and other parts of the East Indies, in which the tongue chaps and cleaves.

lehouse, as a sign; an alepole. At the end was commonly suspended a garland, a bunch of leaves, or a "bush." [Obs.] Chaucer.

tree (Bot.), the tree bearing the almond. -- Almond willow (Bot.), a willow which has leaves that are of a light green on both sides; almond-leaved willow (Salix amygdalina). Shenstone.

on in me. Milton. Appius Claudius admitted to the senate the sons of those who had been slaves; by which, and succeeding alterations, that council degenerated into a most corrupt. Swift.

Distributed, as leaves, singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence. Gray. Alternate alligation. See Alligation. -- Alternate angles (Geom.), the internal and angles made by two lines with a third, on opposite sides of it. It the parallels AB, CD, are cut by the line…

Europe and America. They seize by conquest the larvæ and nymphs other species and make slaves of them in their own nests.

A species of Anthospermum, a shrub with evergreen leaves, which, when bruised, emit a fragrant odor.

Characterized by containing the rudiments of both flowers and leaves; -- applied to a bud.

Clasping or embracing a stem, as the base of some leaves. Gray.

A fish that leaves the sea and ascends rivers.

f round; -- said of certain flattened stems, as those of blue grass, and rarely also of leaves.

oved by anger; wearing the marks of anger; as, angry words or tones; an angry sky; angry waves. "An angry countenance." Prov. xxv. 23.

Having angles or corners; angled; as, angulate leaves.