The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Usage examples of "leaf out".
Dressed all in grey from top to toe, they looked as demure as a covey of quail as they followed Leaf out of the castle and into the courtyard where their ponies waited for them.
They were pin oaks, and had begun to leaf out already, the unfolding leaves peeping out like a baby's fingers.
The trees have started to leaf out, but they're mostly still winter-gray.
Liandrin had already dismounted and plucked the trefoil Avendesora leaf out of the carving.
He took the little image-leaf out of its locker in the gascraft's flank.
Some of the desert plants hold back until there's a rain, then they leaf out suddenly and blossom quickly, to take advantage of that water.
I sneaked up and saw what they were doing, so I thought I'd take a leaf out of your book, Rose.
Inside the walls, the grounds were carefully manicured, not a shrub or a leaf out of place, not a blade of grass poking a little higher than the blades around it.
Cadfael leaned from the saddle and delicately picked a sear oak leaf out of her hair.