leafmold

Decayed leaves reduced to the state of mold, and used as a manure or fertilizer for plants. leaf-nosed, a. Having a nose-leaf (q. v.). Leaf-nosed bats : Zool .: The family Rhino lop hide (q. v.). Leaf-nosed emball on urine bats : Zool .: The family Phyllos tom ide (q. v.). IMG:content-0437.png:[blocks in formation] Archæol.: A term applied to the peculiarly shaped British swords of the Bronze period. "The British bronze sword bears a general likene to those not only of Denmark, but of Gaul, Germany, and even of Italy and Greece; but it has also its peculiar characteristics. It is broader and shorter than the Danish bronze sword, swelling out more toward the middle, so as to suggest the term leaf - shaped , by which it is distinguished."-D. Wilson: Pre-historic Annals of Scotland, 1. 355. IMG:content-0438.png:[blocks in formation] leaf, v. i. (LEAF, 8.] To shoot out or produce leaves or foliage. "Most trees fall off the leaves at autumn; and if not kept back by cold, would leaf about the solstice."Brownee Vulgar Errors , bk. ii., ch. vi. leaf-age (age as ig), subst. [Eng. leaf: -age.] Leaves collectively; foliage. "The trees are heavily clothed with leafage ."-Gardeners' Chronicle , No. 410, p. 599 (1881). leafed, adj . [Eng. leaf ; -ed.] Having leaves; generally in composition, as broad- leafed , . leaf-i-ne , s. [Eng. leafy ; -ne .] The quality or state of being leafy or full of leaves. leaf-le , a . [Eng. leaf ; -le .] Destitute of or without leaves; having no leaves. leafle -plants, s. pl . Bot .: Plants having the petiole of the leaf without the lamina, as in some acacias. leaf-le -ne , subst. [Eng. leafle ; -ne .] The quality or state of being leafle or destitute of leaves. leaf-lět, s. [Eng. leaf; dim in. suff. -let.] 1. Ord. Lang.: A printed slip of paper. 2. Bot .: One of the primary divisions of a com pound leaf.