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To send out leaves; to leaf; -- often with out. G. Fletcher.

Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak.

Bearing, or having, a leaf or leaves; having folds; -- used in combination; as, a four-leaved clover; a two-leaved gate; long- leaved.

Leafless. [Obs.] Carew.

makes a general assimilating (especially a corrupting) change in the mass. Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. Luke xii. 1.

The act of making light, or causing to ferment, by means of leaven.

Containing leaven. Milton.

One who leaves, or withdraws.

pl. of Leaf.

To leave or to be left. [Obs.] May.

Having broad, or relatively broad, leaves. Keats.

To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast; to cling. My bones cleave to my skin. Ps. cii. 5. The diseases of Egypt . . . shall cleave unto thee. Deut. xxviii. 60. Sophistry cleaves close to and protects Sin's rotten trunk, concealing its defects. Cowper.

A variety of albite, white and lamellar in structure.

One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces.

A species of Galium (G. Aparine), having a fruit set with hooked bristles, which adhere to whatever they come in contact with; -- called also, goose grass, catchweed, etc.

To deprive of leaves. [R.] The cankerworms that annually that disleaved the elms. Lowell.

Having five leaflets, as the Virginia creeper.

To leave off wholly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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

To leaven too much; hence, to change excessively; to spoil. [Obs.]