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A flattened stem or branch which more or less resembles a leaf, and performs the function of a leaf as regards respiration and assimilation.

Clad or crowned with pine trees; as, pine-clad hills.

A pistol shot.

To lade or load again.

A kind of piquant sauce or salad dressing resembling mayonnaise.

An ointment used in farriery.

A smoothly running passage of short notes (as semiquavers, or sixteenths) uniformly grouped, sung upon one long syllable, as in Handel's oratorios.

salt, vinegar, oil, and spice, and eaten for giving a relish to other food; as, lettuce salad; tomato salad, etc. Leaves eaten raw termed salad. I. Watts.

A helmet. See Sallet.

Vegetable for salad.

See Escalade. Fairfax.

A little dell or valley; a flat piece of low, moist ground. [Obs.] Drayton.

A portable set of steps.

s which have only two leaves, as the species of Listera and of Liparis. [Written also twyblade.]

See Twayblade.

To take the load from; to take out the cargo of; as, to unlade a ship or a wagon. The venturous merchant . . . Shall here unlade him and depart no more. Dryden.

Covered with vines.

A flying fish of California (Exocoetus Californicus): -- called also volator.

Alas! Welaway! Shak.

A lady's waiting-maid. Pepys. Her abigail reported that Mrs. Gutheridge had a set of night curls for sleeping in. Leslie.