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▪ I. leaflet, n.|ˈliːflɪt|
[f. leaf n.1 + -let.]
A small leaf.
1.
†a. Bot. A sepal. Obs.
b. Bot. One of the divisions of a compound leaf.
c. popularly. A young leaf; rarely, a petal.
1787Fam. Plants I. 153 Perianth five-leaved: the leaflets lanced, equal, permanent. 1811A. T. Thomson Lond. Disp. (1818) 404 The leaves are..pinnate, with a terminal leaflet a little larger than the rest. 1839Ure Dict. Arts 344 It has a cup-shaped calyx..The leaflets are united at their base, of a heart shape and toothed; stigmas three to five. 1854Marion Harland Alone xxviii, The willow leaflets were just putting out. 1855Lynch Rivulet xliv. iv, When Their [blossoms'] colour fades, their leaflets dry. 1872Oliver Elem. Bot. i. vii. 76 Compound leaves..having the blade divided into leaflets. 1896Allbutt's Syst. Med. I. 340 A decoction of aromatic plants, such as lavender or fresh pine leaflets.
2. Phys. and Zool. An organ or part of an organ resembling a small leaf; spec. the thin flap of a valve in the heart or a blood vessel.
1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. III. 392 Foliola (the Leaflets). Rigid..leaf-like anal organs. 1835–6Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 695/1 Respiration is effected by means of four branchial leaflets..arranged on either side of the body. 1936G. R. Herrmann Synopsis Dis. Heart & Arteries xvii. 254 The degrees to which valvular lesions develop depend upon the extent of the allergic or inflammatory processes and the trauma to which these inflamed leaflets are subjected at the time and during the healing processes. 1961R. D. Baker Essent. Path. xiv. 333 Uncomplicated insufficiency occurs when the valve leaflets are held against the wall of the heart or of the great vessels or when the ring of the valve is dilated.
3. a. A small-sized leaf of paper or a sheet folded into two or more leaves but not stitched, and containing printed matter, chiefly for gratuitous distribution.
1867R. Broughton Cometh up as Flower xv. (1878) 153 Leaflets (as Spurgeon and Co. have christened very young tracts). 1886Q. Rev. Jan., 12 A generous gift of Liberation leaflets for home use and distribution among the neighbours. 1888Jacobi Printers' Voc., Leaflets, jobs printed on single leaves, either one or both sides.
b. attrib. and Comb., as leaflet literature, leaflet party, leaflet writer; leaflet raid, a raid in which leaflets are dropped from an aircraft; also transf.; so leaflet drop.
1903Westm. Gaz. 13 Aug. 2/3 Mr. C. A. Vince, M.A., chief leaflet-writer to Mr. Chamberlain. 1904Ibid. 21 Jan. 2/1 Not even the profuse distribution of Birmingham leaflet literature can alter this fact. 1940Flight 11 Apr. 337/1 This same officer commanded the Whitley which made the first leaflet raid over Berlin. 1940Harrisson & Madge War begins at Home vii. 148 The first leaflet raid—in which the R.A.F. dropped 6,000,000 leaflets over Germany. 1943Koestler Arrival & Departure iii. 94 That is why I took part in those leaflet-parties, though it was not my job. 1961Guardian 11 Nov. 1 (caption) Leaflet raid on Lisbon. 1969Listener 31 July 145/2 We would send our lecturers out into the fringes of the jungle to soften people up, we would have special leaflet drops before the troops went in. 1974Times 13 Nov. 2/6 Miners from the Nottinghamshire coalfield..made leaflet raids to pits in South Yorkshire.
▪ II. leaflet, v.|ˈliːflɪt|
[f. leaflet 3.]
trans. and intr. To distribute leaflets to (people or places). Hence ˈleafleting vbl. n.
1962Spectator 24 Aug. 268/3 Thousands of campaigners will be putting this case..by leafletting and pamphleteering. 1968Peace News 25 Oct. 5/3 Civilians who originally had tried to leaflet on bases were quickly kicked off. 1969C. Davidson in Cockburn & Blackburn Student Power 361 We should make our presence felt everywhere— in the campus news media, leafletting and poster displays. 1969Oxf. Univ. Gaz. XCIX. Suppl. vii. 156 The Proctors announced the withdrawal of the regulation prohibiting indiscriminate leafleting. 1972Listener 27 Jan. 119/2 Tariq Ali..refers to the question whether factories should be leafleted. 1973Daily Tel. 9 June 2/8 Our friends in Germany and elsewhere will be encouraged to leaflet British soldiers stationed there. 1973C. Mullard Black Brit. i. iii. 33 The new group were people willing to leaflet, organize and demonstrate. |