Leaf ¹

Definition: A colored, usually green, expansion growing from the side of a stem or rootstock, in which the sap for the use of the plant is elaborated under the influence of light; one of the parts of a plant which collectively constitute its foliage.

Leaf ²

Definition: A special organ of vegetation in the form of a lateral outgrowth from the stem, whether appearing as a part of the foliage, or as a cotyledon, a scale, a bract, a spine, or a tendril.

Leaf ³

Definition: Something which is like a leaf in being wide and thin and having a flat surface, or in being attached to a larger body by one edge or end; as : (a) A part of a book or folded sheet containing two pages upon its opposite sides. (b) A side, division, or part, that slides or is hinged, as of window shutters, folding doors, etc. (c) The movable side of a table. (d) A very thin plate; as, gold leaf. (e) A portion of fat lying in a separate fold or layer. (f) One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.

Leaf ⁴

Definition: To shoot out leaves; to produce leaves; to leave; as, the trees leaf in May.

leaf ⁵

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

leaf ⁶

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

leaf ⁷

Definition: the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants

leaf ⁸

Definition: produce leaves, of plants

leaf ⁹

Definition: turn over pages; "leaf through a book"; "leaf a manuscript"

leaf ¹⁰

Definition: look through a book or other written material; "He thumbed through the report"; "She leafed through the volume"