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Leafing

noun

(botany) the process of forming leaves. Synonym: foliation.

Leaf

verb

(past & past part. leafed; pres. part. leafing)

Look through a book or other written material. Synonyms: flick, flip, riff, riffle, thumb. "She leafed through the volume"

Turn over pages. "Leaf a manuscript"

Produce leaves, of plants.

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"Leafing" Quotes from Famous Books

... in Canada! there's a road that rambles Through a leafing maple-wood and up a windy hill, Velvet pussy-willows press soft hands amid the brambles Fringing round a sky-filled pool where ...

— Fires of Driftwood • Isabel Ecclestone Mackay

... and weaves festoons of gay creepers to conceal the gaunt skeletons of the endless piles of dead drift-wood. All is in the most glorious green—a very extravagance of fresh and brilliant color—relieved with the bright purples and tender leafing of the flowering shrubs and vines that intertwine among its heavy jungle. Upon the broad, flat rocks one may see dozens of stolid "sliders," or mud-turtles, some of great size, basking in the sun like so many boarders at a country ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, October, 1877, Vol. XX. No. 118 • Various

... I suppose," replied Miss Harson, "that it is a very fresh tint; and we are seeing it in its first beauty now. This is the locust tree, and May is its time for leafing out in the tenderest of greens. The pinnate—from pinna, Latin for feather'—leaves are composed of from nine to twenty-five leaflets, which are egg-shaped, with a short point, very smooth, light green above and still lighter beneath. These leaves are much liked by cattle, and ...

— Among the Trees at Elmridge • Ella Rodman Church

... winter days, and soon Shall blow the warm west-winds of spring, To set the unbound rills in tune And hither urge the bluebird's wing. The vales shall laugh in flowers, the woods Grow misty green with leafing buds, And violets and wind-flowers sway Against ...

— The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier