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Leaf

noun

(pl. leaves)

The main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants. Synonyms: foliage, leafage.

A sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book). Synonym: folio.

Hinged or detachable flat section (as of a table or door).

verb

(past & past part. leafed; pres. part. leafing)

Look through a book or other written material. Synonyms: flick, flip, riff, riffle, thumb. "She leafed through the volume"

Turn over pages. "Leaf a manuscript"

Produce leaves, of plants.

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"Leaf" Quotes from Famous Books

... brilliantly illuminated by it—when I suddenly started up, broad awake, with my hair on end and the sweat of terror literally streaming from my every pore, for I was feeling more thoroughly scared than I had ever before been, and I was trembling like a leaf, and my teeth were chattering; although at the moment I had not the slightest notion what it was that had ...

— The Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn • Harry Collingwood

... wrapped my tears in an ellum leaf And left them under a stone, And now men call me mad because I have thrown All folly from me, putting it aside To leave the old barren ways of ...

— Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry • T.S. Eliot

... to its course to the strange island. The man by the grove of palms waved his arms and ran toward the shore nearest to them. He shouted several times, but Captain Cromwell could not hear him. Finally, the man picked up a huge leaf, and, twisting it into a cornucopia shape, made a megaphone of it. With this aid his voice came floating ...

— The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories • Charles Weathers Bump

... out across the town below towards the eastern hills and framed with clusters of red maple. It was the clear stillness of a frosty morning before dawn, not motion enough in the autumn air to stir a ripe red maple leaf, and as I lay in bed suddenly the air itself seemed to heave a sigh of music mellow, soft, and yet full, gradual in its coming as in its going, all-pervading, strange and wonderful. Stillness again, and then it came again, or rather not ...

— The Empire of the East • H. B. Montgomery

... the swallows fly home to the old brown shed, And the robins build on the bough overhead, Then out from the mold, from the darkness and cold, Blossom and runner and leaf unfold. ...

— McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey

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