Definition of leaf

"leaf" in the noun sense

1. leaf, leafage, foliage

the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants

2. leaf, folio

a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book)

3. leaf

hinged or detachable flat section (as of a table or door)

"leaf" in the verb sense

1. flick, flip, thumb, riffle, leaf, riff

look through a book or other written material

"He thumbed through the report"

"She leafed through the volume"

2. leaf

turn over pages

"leaf through a book"

"leaf a manuscript"

3. leaf

produce leaves, of plants

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Quotations for leaf

Turn over a new leaf. [ Thomas Dekker ]

After this leaf another grows. [ Proverb ]

Hold fast an eel with a fig leaf. [ Proverb ]

No leaf moves but as God wills it. [ Spanish Proverb ]

Yet, no - not words, for they
But half can tell love's feeling;
Sweet flowers alone can say
What passion fears revealing:
A once bright rose's wither'd leaf,
A tow'ring lily broken -
Oh, these may paint a grief
No words could ever have spoken. [ Moore ]

The withered frame, the ruined mind.
The wreck by passion left behind,
A shrivelled scroll, a scattered leaf,
Seared by the autumn blast of grief! [ Byron ]

Or stars of morning, dew-drops which the sun
Impearls on every leaf and every flower. [ Milton ]

For thee, O now a silent soul, my brother,
Take at my hands this garland and farewell,
Thin is the leaf, and chill the wintry smell,
And chill the solemn earth, a fatal mother. [ Swinburne ]

'Tis sweet to listen as the night winds creep
From leaf to leaf; 'tis sweet to view on high
The rainbow, based on ocean, span the sky. [ Byron ]

Sweet letters of the angel tongue,
I've loved ye long and well.
And never have failed in your fragrance sweet
To find some secret spell -
A charm that has bound me with witching power,
For mine is the old belief,
That midst your sweets and midst your bloom,
There's a soul in every leaf! [ M. M. Ballou ]

Morn on the mountain, like a summer bird.
Lifts up her purple wing, and in the vales
The gentle wind, a sweet and passionate wooer,
Kisses the blushing leaf. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Every day in thy life is a leaf in thy history. [ Arab. Proverb ]

My days are in the yellow leaf;
The flowers and fruits of love are gone;
The worm, the canker, and the grief, Are mine alone. [ Byron ]

With time and patience, the mulberry-leaf becomes satin. [ Proverb ]

Your voiceless lips, O flowers, are living preachers - each cup a pulpit, and each leaf a book. [ Horace Smith ]

A faint blush melting through the light of thy transparent cheek like a rose-leaf bathed in dew. [ Whittier ]

Each particle of matter is an immensity, each leaf a world, each insect an inexplicable compendium. [ Lavater ]

No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. [ John Ruskin ]

Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there is no less. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

A single word is often a concentrated poem, a little grain of pure gold, capable of being beaten out into a broad extent of gold-leaf. [ Trench ]

Sweet flower, thou tellest how hearts as pure and tender as thy leaf, as low and humble as thy stem, will surely know the joy that peace imparts. [ Percival ]

The recording angel, consider it well, is no fable, but the truest of truths; the paper tablets thou canst burn; of the "iron leaf" there is no burning. [ Carlyle ]

Women are so gentle, so affectionate, so true in sorrow, so untired and untiring! but the leaf withers not sooner, and tropic light fades not more abruptly. [ Barry Cornwall ]

Force, force, everywhere force; we ourselves a mysterious force in the center of that. There is not a leaf rotting on the highway but has force in it; how else could it rot? [ Carlyle ]

Society, that distills so many poisons, resembles that serpent of India whose abode is the leaf of the plant that cures its bite: society usually offers a remedy for the sufferings it causes. [ A. de Musset ]

My May of life is fallen into the sear, the yellow leaf; and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have; but in their stead, curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honor, breath which the poor heart would fain deny and dare not. [ William Shakespeare ]

Color is, in brief terms, the type of love. Hence it is especially connected with the blossoming of the earth; and again, with its fruits; also, with the spring and fall of the leaf, and with the morning and evening of the day, in order to show the waiting of love about the birth and death of man. [ Ruskin ]

From numberless books the fluttering reader, idle and inconstant, bears away the bloom that only clings to the outer leaf; but genius has its nectaries, delicate glands, and secrecies of sweetness, and upon these the thoughtful mind must settle in its labor, before the choice perfume of fancy and wisdom is drawn forth. [ Willmott ]

The only thing that has been taught successfully to women is to wear becomingly the fig-leaf they received from their first mother. Everything that is said and repeated for the first eighteen or twenty years of a woman's life is reduced to this: My daughter, take care of your fig-leaf; your fig-leaf becomes you; your fig-leaf does not become you. [ Diderot ]

All things are engaged in writing their history. The planet, the pebble, goes attended by its shadow. The rolling rock leaves its scratches on the mountain; the river, its channel in the soil; the animal, its bones in the stratum; the fern and leaf, their modest epitaph in the coal. The falling drop makes its sculpture in the sand or the stone. Not a foot steps into the snow or along the ground, but prints, in characters more or less lasting, a map of its march. Every act of the man inscribes itself in the memories of its fellows, and in his own manners and face. The air is full of sounds, the sky of tokens, the ground is all memoranda and signatures, and every object covered over with hints which speak to the intelligent. [ Emerson ]

leaf in Scrabble®

The word leaf is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters leaf:

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leaf in Words With Friends™

The word leaf is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters leaf:

LEAF
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FLEA
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ALEF
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Word Growth involving leaf

Shorter words in leaf

lea

Longer words containing leaf

bayleaf bayleafs

broadleaf

cutleaf

daisyleaf

dropleaf

flyleaf

goldleaf

heartleaf

interleaf

largeleaf

leafage

leafbird leafbirds

leafcutter leafcutters

leafed

leafery

leafhopper leafhoppers

leafier

leafiest

leafiness

leafing

leafless leaflessness

leaflet leafleted

leaflet leafleteer leafleteers

leaflet leafleter leafleters

leaflet leafleting

leaflet leaflets

leaflet leafletted

leaflet leafletting

leaflike

leafminer leafminers

leafmold

leafroller leafrollers

leafs bayleafs

leafs cloverleafs

leafs leafstalk leafstalks

leafs looseleafs

leafworm leafworms

leafy nonleafy

leafy unleafy

looseleaf looseleafs

oakleaf

overleaf cloverleaf cloverleafs

quiverleaf

singleleaf

underleaf