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Having leaflets like fingers; digitate.

Having five leaflets, as the Virginia creeper.

To flay. [Obs.] He will be fleaced first And horse collars made of's skin. J. Fletcher.

Of or pertaining to leaflets; -- used in composition; as, bi- foliolate. Gray.

One of the distinct parts of a compound leaf; a leaflet.

A thief. [Obs.] Have an eye to your plate, for there be furies. J. Fleteher.

a field of gules did stain In which two swords he bore; his word, "Divide and reign." P. Fletcher. Follow thy drum; With man's blood paint the ground; gules, gules. Shak. Let's march to rest and set in gules, like suns. Beau. & Fl.

Having six leaves or leaflets.

ged sound, like that of a bee in flight; to drone; to murmur; to buzz; as, a top hums. P. Fletcher. Still humming on, their drowsy course they keep. Pope.

To mold into shape, or form. [Obs.] G. Fletcher.

Pinnate with a single terminal leaflet.

ith any art but such improper ones as nature is said to bestow, as singing and poetry. J. Fletcher.

Burnt in; ineffaceable. Her inburnt, shamefaced thoughts. P. Fletcher.

ated with something detestable; hence, unlucky; perilous; dangerous. "Infamous woods." P. Fletcher. Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds. Milton. The piny shade More infamous by cursed Lycaon made. Dryden.

To inter with funeral rites; to bury. [Obs.] G. Fletcher.

To ingratiate. [Obs.] G. Fletcher.

To work in, as lace; to embellish with work resembling lace; also, to lace or enlace. P. Fletcher.

Entrail or inside. [Obs.] G. Fletcher.

gular; -- said of any arrangement whose symmetry is destroyed by local causes, as when leaflets are interposed among the leaves in a pinnate leaf.

ks or interruptions; discontinuously. Interruptedly pinnate (Bot.), pinnate with small leaflets intermixed with large ones. Gray.