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Leafed

Leaf \Leaf\, Leaf out \Leaf out\(l[=e]f), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Leafed (l[=e]ft); p. pr. & vb. n. Leafing.] To shoot out leaves; to produce leaves; to leave; as, the trees leaf in May.
--Sir T. Browne.

Leafed

Leafed \Leafed\, a. Having (such) a leaf or (so many) leaves; -- used in composition; as, broad-leafed; four-leafed.

Wiktionary
leafed
  1. Having a leaf or leaves; used mainly in combination with another word to form adjectives describing the number, form, colour, etc., of leaves. v

  2. (en-past of: leaf)

WordNet
leafed

adj. having leaves or leaves as specified; often used in combination; "a fully leafed tree"; "broad-leafed"; "four-leaved clover" [syn: leaved]

Usage examples of "leafed".

He opened the first agenda and leafed through the pages, stopping to point out several of the entries that had merited his attention.

The crisp paper crackled as Kirin opened the sheets and leafed through them curiously.

He took his nasty old book away and leafed expressionlessly through the pages, leaving me standing amid potatoes and several representatives of the cabbage family, white cabbage, red cabbage, savoy cabbage, Brussels sprouts, and kohlrabi, wretchedly lonely, for I had left my drum at home.

Signing the book, Ghita leafed casually back, only to have it fall open at the page she was pretending not to look for: Tessa Abbott, PO box, Nairobi, Tukul 28.

Intent on the narrow spaces between the leaves, she lucked out, arrowing between thickly leafed tubes into a relatively clear space where the tiny plantlets must have been newly inserted.

Lady Atago leafed through the printout with growing enthusiasm, Wichman congratulated himself on his foresight in roping Lo Prek into his organization.

While Tibor drove the pirogue steadily toward the nearside shore, he sat in the stern and leafed through the book he had risked his life to save.

He held his free hand under one of the drooping fronds of the palmlike tree, and a small leafed branch dropped into it, as if on command.

I took it from her fingers, opened the snap and leafed through the plastic cardholders inside.

They were sparsely leafed but heavily in fruit with green, gourdlike pods that ranged from the size of a fist to the size of a coconut.

Its gilt-ribbed pilasters and wedding-cake ceiling leafed in gold almost mocked the poverty of the people intended to benefit from the event, who were brought to mind only in the obligatory mid-meal video.

SPORTS IN AMERICA W hile they waited for Milchuk to show, Carnes leafed throughSports Illustrated , the NFL Preview issue, and Penner checked out the baseball scores inThe Globe .

The names I saw were-" Mary Catherine leafed through her notes for a second, "Margaret Thatcher, Earl Strong, Easyrider, Scatflinger and Mohinder Singh.

Stopping for coffee and two burritos with green chili in a cafe" near the central plaza, he leafed swiftly through all twenty magazines, marking the stories that carried a Charley Bloom by-line.

Lucie leafed through them, pausing over meticulous sketches of astrological signs, heavenly portents.