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A cow. [Prov. Eng.; U.S., a child's word.] Leave milking and dry up old mulley, thy cow. Tusser.

Having parts, as leaves, arranged in many vertical rows.

Arranged in many rows, or series, as the scales of a pine cone, or the leaves of the houseleek.

m formerly applied to any mosslike flowerless plant, with a distinct stem, and often with leaves, but without any vascular system.

usk thistle (Bot.), a species of thistle (Carduus nutans), having fine large flowers, and leaves smelling strongly of musk. -- Musk tortoise, Musk turtle (Zoöl.), a small American fresh-water tortoise (Armochelys, or Ozotheca, odorata), which has a distinct odor of musk; -- called also stinkpot.

Having an indefinitely great or countless number of leaves.

Its branches form a close, full head, thickly covered with ovate or lanceolate evergreen leaves. It has solitary axillary white or rosy flowers, followed by black several-seeded berries. The ancients considered it sacred to Venus. The flowers, leaves, and berries are used variously in perfumery and as a condiment, and…

re, or not covered by the customary parts, as a flower without a perianth, a stem without leaves, seeds without a pericarp, buds without bud scales.

An Australian name for Marsilea Drummondii, a four-leaved cryptogamous plant, sometimes used for food.

ccurate; exact. But first with narrow search I must walk round This garden, and no corner leave unspied. Milton.

y plant of the genus Tropæolum, geraniaceous herbs, having mostly climbing stems, peltate leaves, and spurred flowers, and including the common Indian cress (Tropæolum majus), the canary-bird flower (T. peregrinum), and about thirty more species, all natives of South America. The whole plant has a warm pungent flavor,…

Floating in water, as the leaves of water lilies, or submersed, as those of many aquatic plants.

aracter or sentiments properly belonging to one's position; not unnatural in feelings. To leave his wife, to leave his babes, ... He wants the natural touch. Shak.

A European perennial succulent herb (Cotyledon umbilicus), having round, peltate leaves with a central depression; -- also called pennywort, and kidneywort.

One of the needle-shaped secondary leaves of pine trees. See Pinus.

A book-shaped needlecase, having leaves of cloth into which the needles are stuck.

A genus of climbing plants found in India, Malaya, etc., which have the leaves prolonged into a kind of stout tendril terminating in a pitcherlike appendage, whence the plants are often called pitcher plants and monkey-cups. There are about thirty species, of which the best known is Nepenthes distillatoria. See Pitcher…

The arrangement of nerves and veins, especially those of leaves; neuration. The outlines of the fronds of ferns, and their nervation, are frail characters if employed alone for the determination of existing genera. J. D. Hooker.

One of the nerves of leaves.

To build and occupy a nest. The king of birds nested within his leaves. Howell.