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leafless, a.|ˈliːflɪs| Also 6–7 leaveless, q.v. [f. leaf n.1 + -less.] Without a leaf; destitute of leaves or foliage. Also fig.
1590T. Watson Eclog. Death Walsingham 217 in Poems (Arb.) 163 Now in the woods be leafelesse eury Tree. 1697Dryden æneid xi. 13 Above his Arms, fix'd on the leafless Wood, Appear'd his Plumy Crest. 1776–96Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 390 Shoots very long, rather leafless below. 1824W. Irving T. Trav. I. 18 A cold leafless park. 1830Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 330 Aphyllæ, or Leafless flowerless plants. 1839― Introd. Bot. (ed. 3) 127 The petiole may exist without the lamina, as in leafless Acacias. 1866M. Arnold Thyrsis ii, Leafless, yet soft as spring, The tender purple spray on copse and briers! b. leafless tree, the gallows. slang.
1830Lytton Paul Clifford I. xi. 261 Oh! there never was life like the Robber's..And its end?—why a cheer from the crowd below, And a leap from a leafless tree! Hence ˈleaflessness.
1818Milman Samor viii. 580 Thy o'ershadowing woods One bare, brown leaflessness. 1875I. L. Bird Sandwich Isl. (1880) 89 Mist, cold, murk, slush, gales, leaflessness, and all the dismal concomitants of an English winter. |