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leafed, a.|liːft| (See also leaved a.) [f. leaf + -ed2.] Having a leaf or leaves. Chiefly in parasynthetic formations, as broad-leafed, thick-leafed, two-leafed. 1. Having leaves or foliage; bearing (a specified kind of) foliage. rare except with adj. prefixed.
1552Huloet, Braunched or leafed, frondatus. 1572J. Bossewell Armorie iii. 236 The fielde is of the Moone, a Therebinthe tree, Saturne, floured and leafed Veneris. 1601Holland Pliny II. 257 Some say it is leafed after the maner of Squilla or sea-onion. 1660Blount Boscobel 32 The colonel made choice of a thick leafed oak. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 177 Bamboos..sending from every Joint sprouts of the same form, leafed like long Five-fingered Grass. 1860Merc. Marine Mag. VII. 199 A thick leafed..plant. transf.1659T. Pecke Parnassi Puerp. 16 Trees regain Hair: and Fields the verdant Grass: But when will your Head Leaf'd be, as it was? †2. Of a door, book, etc.: Having (a specified number of) leaves. Obs.
1598Yong Diana 87 All the windowes were double leafed a peece. 1611Cotgr., Valve, a foulding, or two-leafed doore, or window. 1611Coryat Crudities 211 A two leafed brasen gate. 1626tr. Parallel. A ij, A two leafed Tablet. 3. (Broad-) brimmed. Cf. leaf n.1 14.
1841H. Ainsworth Guy Fawkes i, With a broad-leafed steeple-crowned hat..pulled over his brows. 1861W. F. Collier Hist. Eng. Lit. 176 A broad-leafed low-crowned hat of Flemish beaver. |