[VINE sb.] A leaf of a vine.
c. 1420. Lydg., Assembly of Gods, 353. Of grene vyne leues he weryd a ioly crowne.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 510/2. Vyny leef, pampinus, abestrum.
c. 1475. Pict. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 810. Hic pamplus, a vyneleffe.
a. 1513. Fabyan, Chron., VI. (1811), 160. They were fayne to take vyne leuys to couer with theyr secret membrys.
1601. Holland, Pliny, I. Table s.v., Vine leaves to be cleansed once in the spring.
1634. Peacham, Compl. Gentl., xii. (1906), 109. Whereby we are taught to know … Bacchus by his Vine-leaves.
1731. Miller, Gard. Dict., s.v. Vitis, That vile Taste of a rotten Vine Leaf.
1765. Sterne, Tr. Shandy, VII. xliii. There were two dozen of eggs covered over with vine-leaves at the bottom of the basket.
1818. Shelley, Rosal. & Helen, 1258. Its casements bright Shone through their vine-leaves in the morning sun.
1888. Encycl. Brit., XXIV. 238/2. The imago … shortly after lays its eggs upon the upper surface of the vine leaf.
attrib. 1874. H. H. Cole, Catal. Ind. Art S. Kens. Mus., 258. Muslin. Figured; diaper vine-leaf pattern.
b. Vine-leaf miner, an insect infesting vine-leaves.
Also vine-leaf folder, hopper, roller. (In recent Amer. Dicts.)
1830. Insect Architecture (L. E. K.), 238. The vine-leaf miner, when about to construct its cocoon, cuts … two pieces of the membrane of the leaf.
