Leaf (plur. leaves) 1) the part of plants called Folium and Petalum: Ven. 416. Ven. 416 Ven. 416 Lucr. 1168. Sonn. 5, 7. 12, 5. 25, 5. 73, 2. 97, 14. Pilgr. 231. Ado II, 1, 247. LLL IV, 3, 44. All's IV, 4, 32. R2 I, 2, 20. III, 4, 50. H4A V, 1, 5. H4B II, 4, 117. H5 III, 2, 353. H6A IV, 1, 92. H6B III, 1, 90. V, 1, 206. H6C II, 6, 48. III, 3, 126. R3 II, 2, 42. II, 3, 33. H8 III, 2, 353. Tit. II, 3, 14. Tit. II, 3, 14 II, 4, 45. Rom. I, 1, 158. I, 2, 52. Tim. IV, 3, 263. Hml. IV, 7, 168. Ant. III, 12, 9. Cymb. III, 3, 63. IV, 2, 223. The sing. collectively == leaves, foliage: “met with the fall of l.” R2 III, 4, 49. “fallen into the sear, the yellow l.” Mcb. V, 3, 23.
2) a part of a book containing two pages: Sonn. 77, 3. LLL V, 2, 8. Tit. IV, 1, 102 “(a l. of brass).” Tit. IV, 1, 102 Tim. IV, 3, 117 (within the l. of pity writ). to turn the l. or the --ves == to seek a passage in a book: Tit. IV, 1, 45. Mcb. I, 3, 152. to fold down or to turn down the l. == to mark a passage by folding the leaf: Caes. IV, 3, 273. Cymb. II, 2, 4. Cymb. II, 2, 4
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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