Word Finder - leaves

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The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.

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Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.

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A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.

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gold leaf

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A sheet of a book, magazine, etc (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).

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• folium

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(in the plural) Tea leaves.

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A flat section used to extend the size of a table.

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A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement.

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The train car has one single-leaf and two double-leaf doors per side.

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A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.

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In a tree, a node that has no descendants.

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The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat.

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One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.

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Marijuana.

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(4chan) A Canadian person.

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To have a consequence or remnant.

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To depart; to separate from.

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To transfer something.

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To remain (behind); to stay.

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To stop, desist from; to "leave off" (+ noun / gerund).

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The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball.

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The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether the next shooter — who may be either the same player, or an opponent — has good options, or only poor ones).

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Permission to be absent; time away from one's work.

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I've been given three weeks' leave by my boss.

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Permission.

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Might I beg leave to accompany you?

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Farewell, departure.

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I took my leave of the gentleman without a backward glance.

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To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant.

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We were not left go to the beach after school except on a weekend.

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To produce leaves or foliage.

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To raise; to levy.

No one leaves his mate in a place like this.

Life as it is leaves one no peace.

The leaves are waiting for us.

She brushed leaves from her clothes and slowly walked up the drive.

The moon is a fickle lover, like a beautiful woman…she gives her whole heart but once a month and leaves you before dawn…why fear you the night?

She turned the leaves and showed them the strange letters.

She called to him as he hunkered down beside a rose bush with a few brown leaves clinging to it.

When the leaves and the trees fell, the water and the soil covered them; and then more trees grew and fell also, and were buried under water and soil.

They come rustling through the woods like autumn leaves, at least ten men to one loon.

He leaves no room for failure or my hope that certain things will change, she said.

In dry gourds, they were served a hot tea made from the ground leaves of something Bordeaux called the lip fern.

Frustration finally drove the couple to play the game the same way—contact no one, put your head in the sand, and hope everyone leaves you alone and forgets you exist.

Which leaves Gerald at home alone.

She said there was a woman who came to see her three days every five, with eyes like the first leaves of spring.

Even ice begins with delicate crystal leaves, as if it had flowed into moulds which the fronds of waterplants have impressed on the watery mirror.

Inside the hedge they came upon row after row of large and handsome plants with broad leaves gracefully curving until their points nearly reached the ground.

From the cave we have advanced to roofs of palm leaves, of bark and boughs, of linen woven and stretched, of grass and straw, of boards and shingles, of stones and tiles.

A bird sits on the next bough, life-everlasting grows under the table, and blackberry vines run round its legs; pine cones, chestnut burs, and strawberry leaves are strewn about.

Some were red, some white, and others pale pink, and they were just peeping out of the green leaves, as rosy-faced children peep out from their warm beds in wintertime before they are quite willing to get up.

She rearranged the fuel and added some pine needles and leaves.

That leaves demons.  Maybe trees don't like demons.

Once it chanced that I stood in the very abutment of a rainbow's arch, which filled the lower stratum of the atmosphere, tinging the grass and leaves around, and dazzling me as if I looked through colored crystal.

The whole tree itself is but one leaf, and rivers are still vaster leaves whose pulp is intervening earth, and towns and cities are the ova of insects in their axils.

Now he rode beside Ilyin under the birch trees, occasionally plucking leaves from a branch that met his hand, sometimes touching his horse's side with his foot, or, without turning round, handing a pipe he had finished to an hussar riding behind him, with as calm and careless an air as though he were merely out for a ride.

Julie wants desperately to come back east but Howie wants to talk to Martha and learn the truth before he leaves.

The leaves of the big oak tree were like silver filigree and the white cross beneath it looked iridescent.

They navigated the jungle as fast as they could, catching themselves against trees as they slid through slippery piles of leaves and over fallen branches.  Katie ran until she was breathless.  Deidre kept on running, and Katie pushed her body forward.

Which leaves Jonny, Xander mused.

The tree breaks into thin stems close to the ground, and these branch again and again, the leaves being developed umbrellafashion on the outer branches.

The oval leaves are dark-green above, and whitish with stellate hairs beneath, the margin entire and slightly recurved.

The very large acorns are remarkable for their thick cups with long reflexed scales; the leaves are large, oblong, with deep serratures terminating in a bristle-like point.

The remaining bundles (compensation bundles) which go to make up the cylinder are such as have branched off from the leaf-traces, and will, after joining with others similarly given off, themselves form the traces of leaves situated at a higher level on the stem.

The flowers appear with the leaves in April and May.

Like that of Natal the Transvaal coal burns with a clear flame and leaves little ash.

I represent my teacher as saying to me of the golden autumn leaves, "Yes, they are beautiful enough to comfort us for the flight of summer"--an idea direct from Miss Canby's story.

Of course, he had not gone far when he noticed the brightness of the leaves, and he quickly guessed the cause when he saw the broken jars from which the treasure was still dropping.

And hark! here comes the cattle-train bearing the cattle of a thousand hills, sheepcots, stables, and cow-yards in the air, drovers with their sticks, and shepherd boys in the midst of their flocks, all but the mountain pastures, whirled along like leaves blown from the mountains by the September gales.

He had soaked hemlock leaves in water and drank it, and thought that was better than water in warm weather.

But now the kind October wind rises, rustling the leaves and rippling the surface of the water, so that no loon can be heard or seen, though his foes sweep the pond with spy-glasses, and make the woods resound with their discharges.

The birches with their sticky green leaves were motionless, and lilac-colored flowers and the first blades of green grass were pushing up and lifting last year's leaves.

There was a smell of decaying leaves and of dog.

Finally, he broke through the thatch of branches and leaves blocking most of the sun.  The day was darkening.  In the distance, he saw the massive fortress that was Death's, and he saw the Lake of Souls he'd seen in angel memories.  He saw birds but couldn't see through the jungle to where Katie might be.  The branch holding him swayed in a heavy wind that smelled of rain.

Trees arched over the road, forming a canopy of leaves.

The rain had refreshed the vegetation and the trunks of the trees were dark against the bright green leaves.

The minute insects included in it, which haunt blossoms and leaves, are fairly well known to gardeners by the name Thrips, a generic term used by Linnaeus for the four species of the group which he had examined and relegated to the order Hemiptera.

Thysanoptera are found on the leaves and in the blossoms of plants.

They shelter in crevices of the bark of trees, in the dried stems of herbaceous plants, or among moss and fallen leaves on the ground.

From certain indications in the latter and the evidence of some odd leaves discovered by David Laing, it has been concluded that there was an earlier Edinburgh edition, which has been ascribed to Thomas Davidson, printer, and dated c. 1540.

With this or a mixture of horse-dung, loam, old mushroom-bed dung, and half-decayed leaves, the beds are built up in successive layers of about 3 in.

The first consists of cutting up the various fabrics and materials employed into shapes suitable for forming the leaves, petals, &c.; this may be done by scissors, but more often stamps are employed which will cut through a dozen or more thicknesses at one blow.