Leaf

A flat, expanded organ of a plant, varying in shape, and situated usually at the extremity the twigs. It is employed in elaborating the plant food. The crude sap enters the leaf, where for air. This changes the character of the sap and the currier and leather dre er fit it for the many uses to which dre ed leather is applied by a varied series of finishing operations. The surface of the leather is smoothed, and its.thickne equal¬ ized. It is made soft, flexible, and water-proof; for blackened, enamelled, or dyed. with birch-bark, which gives it a peculiar odor, and prevents moths and other insects from injur¬ ing books bound with it. called because it was first brought from Morocco. It was originally made from goat-skins tanned with sumach, but now calf-skins and sheep¬ skins are used. Morocco leather is now made in France and in the United for boots and shoes. A fine leather is made from seal skin, and the skins of alligators are some¬ times tanned for boots and shoes. po e ing one or two sucking discs. It is found in fresh and salt water, and sometimes on land. Lentil. The medicinal leech is from 2 to 3 inches in length, with a minutely-ringed body, composed of 102 skin rings, and has a sucker moved by strong muscles. This species of leech is largely used in abstracting blood from the body" for medical purposes. allied to the onion and used in soup. Leopard. Roman army, which corresponded to a brigade in modern armies. The legion—3,000 and after¬ wards 6,000 strong—was divided into centuries or companies of 100 men each. The word as now used indicates a great number. in Scand in a via and Finland. It is a vegetable feeder, and is remarkable for its occasional migrations, in which bands of immense multi¬ tudes pa from the mountains to the sea. Great numbers are destroyed by carnivorous birds and