a. (See also LEAVED a.) [f. LEAF + -ED2.] Having a leaf or leaves. Chiefly in parasynthetic formations, as broad-, thick-, two-leafed.
1. Having leaves or foliage; bearing (a specified kind of) foliage. rare except with adj. prefixed.
1552. Huloet, Braunched or leafed, frondatus.
1572. Bossewell, Armorie, III. 236. The fielde is of the Moone, a Therebinthe tree, Saturne, floured and leafed Veneris.
1601. Holland, Pliny, II. 257. Some say it is leafed after the maner of Squilla or sea-onion.
1660. Blount, Boscobel, 32. The colonel made choice of a thick leafed oak.
1698. Fryer, Acc. E. India & P., 177. Bamboos … sending from every Joint sprouts of the same form, leafed like long Five-fingered Grass.
1860. Merc. Marine Mag., VII. 199. A thick leafed … plant.
transf. 1659. Pecke, Parnassi Puerp., 16. Trees regain Hair: and Fields the verdant Grass: But when will your Head Leaf’d be, as it was?
† 2. Of a door, book, etc.: Having (a specified number of) leaves. Obs.
1598. Yong, Diana, 87. All the windowes were double leafed a peece.
1611. Cotgr., Valve, a foulding, or two-leafed doore, or window.
1611. Coryat, Crudities, 211. A two leafed brasen gate.
1626. trans. Parallel., A ij. A two leafed Tablet.
3. (Broad-) brimmed. Cf. LEAF sb. 14.
1841. W. H. Ainsworth, Guy Fawkes, I. i. 19. With a broad-leafed steeple-crowned hat, decorated with a single green feather, pulled over his brows.
1861. W. F. Collier, Hist. Eng. Lit., 176. A broad-leafed low-crowned hat of Flemish beaver.
