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Union by league; alliance. [Obs.]

ectively, as produced or arranged by nature; leafage; as, a tree or forest of beautiful foliage.

Furnished with foliage; leaved; as, the variously foliaged mulberry.

gh we wipe away with never so much care the dirt thrown at us, there will be left some sulliage behind. Gov. of Tongue.

A certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights, and inferior tenants, toward the public expenses. [Written also tailage, taillage.]

An ornament resembling the foliage or leaves of the acanthus (Acanthus spinosus); -- used in the capitals of the Corinthian and Composite orders.

ted, inlaid, or carved in low relief. It consists of a pattern in which plants, fruits, foliage, etc., as well as figures of men and animals, real or imaginary, are fantastically interlaced or put together.

venenata) are shrubs of different families, somewhat resembling the true ashes in their foliage. -- Mountain ash. See Roman tree, and under Mountain.

lant from the coal formations of Europe and America, now regarded as the branchlets and foliage of calamites.

Destitute of the natural or common covering on the head or top, as of hair, feathers, foliage, trees, etc.; as, a bald head; a bald oak. On the bald top of an eminence. Wordsworth.

A continuous tablet, stripe, or series of ornaments, as of carved foliage, of color, or of brickwork, etc.

A growth of trees or shrubs; underwood; a thicket; thick foliage; a wooded landscape.

Silk stuff, woven with gold and silver threads, or ornamented with raised flowers, foliage, etc.; -- also applied to other stuffs thus wrought and enriched. A gala suit of faded brocade. W. Irving.

e very injurious to fruit and shade trees by eating, and often entirely destroying, the foliage. Other similar larvæ are also called cankerworms.

A special branch, resembling a leaf, as in the apparent foliage of the broom (Ruscus) and of the common cultivated smilax (Myrsiphillum).

Of some other color than green. Colored, meaning, as applied to foliage, of some other color than green. Gray.

sed by Endlicher to include all plants with an axis containing vascular tissue and with foliage.

rströmia Indica) from the East Indies, often planted in the Southern United States. Its foliage is like that of the myrtle, and the flower has wavy crisped petals. -- Oriental crape. See Canton crape.

ado to California and southward through Mexico. It has yellow flowers and very resinous foliage with a strong odor of creosote.

An ornament often resembling curved and bent foliage, projecting from the sloping edge of a gable, spire, etc.