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(botany) the process of forming leaves

(geology) the arrangement of leaflike layers in a rock

(botany) the process of forming leaves

(geology) the arrangement of leaflike layers in a rock

The process of forming into a leaf or leaves.

The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina.

The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses.

The enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the ornaments. See Tracery.

The property, possessed by some crystalline rocks, of dividing into plates or slabs, which is due to the cleavage structure of one of the constituents, as mica or hornblende. It may sometimes include slaty structure or cleavage, though the latter is usually independent of any mineral constituent, and transverse to the bedding, it having been produced by pressure.

The manner in which the young leaves are dispoed within the bud.

The process of forming into a leaf or leaves.

The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina.

The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses.

The enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the ornaments. See Tracery.

The property, possessed by some crystalline rocks, of dividing into plates or slabs, which is due to the cleavage structure of one of the constituents, as mica or hornblende. It may sometimes include slaty structure or cleavage, though the latter is usually independent of any mineral constituent, and transverse to the bedding, it having been produced by pressure.

The manner in which the young leaves are dispoed within the bud.

The act of leafing; the act or process of beating a metal into thin plates; the number of the leaves of a book.

In bot. the leafing of plants; vernation; the disposition of the nescent leaves within the bud; the act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, or foil; the act or operation of spreading foil over the back surface of a mirror or looking-glass; in geol. the property or quality in certain rocks, as gneiss, mica-schist, and other metamorphic rocks, of dividing into laminae or plates which consist each of a distinct material, and which are generally parallel to the primitive planes of stratification; "Cleavage may be applied to those divisional planes which render a rock fissile, although it may be applied to those divisional planes which render a rock fissile, although it may appear to the eye quite or nearly homogeneous; foliation may be used for those alternating layers or plates of different mineralogical nature, of which gneiss and other metamorphic schists are composed."-Derwin; in arch. the act of enriching with ornamental cusps, as in the tracery of Gothic windows; the ornaments themselves; feathering. This style of ornamentation is based on the form of natural foliage, but it generally exhibits coventional rather than real leaves and flowers.

The leafing of plants.

The leafing out of plants.

The act of foliating.

n. Act of forming into leaves;—act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, or lamina;—act of spreading foil over the back part of a mirror;—act of enriching with ornaments resembling leaves, or the ornaments themselves;—the property possessed by some crystalline rocks of dividing into plates or slabs.

The act of beating into thin leaves; the flower of a plant.