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unˈleave, v.
[un-2 4; cf. unleaf v.]
a. trans. To strip of leaves. Hence unˈleaving vbl. n.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xxv. (Arb.) 309 The good gardiner..vnleaues his boughes to let in the sunne. 1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. i. iv. Handie-crafts 136 Somtimes they do the far-spread Gourd unleave. 1611Cotgr., Effueillement, an vnleauing. 1648Hexham ii, Ontbladeren, to Vnleave, or, to Take away the Leaves.
b. intr. To lose or shed leaves. rare.
1880G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 88 Margaret, are you grieving Over Goldengrove unleaving? |