Leaved

a. (See also LEAFED a.) [f. LEAF sb. or LEAVE v. + -ED.]

  1.  Having leaves or foliage; bearing leaves, ‘in leaf.’ lit. and fig. Also Her.

c. 1250.  Gen. & Ex., 3839. It [Aaron’s rod] was grene and leaued bi-cumen.

c. 1350.  Will. Palerne, 22. Þe buschys þat were blowed grene, & leued ful louely.

1377.  Langl., P. Pl., B. XV. 95. There somme bowes ben leued and somme bereth none.

1470–85.  Malory, Arthur, VI. vi. They lodged hem in a lytyl leued wood.

1572.  Mascall, Plant. & Graff., vii. (1651), 40. In the spring time before the trees be leaved.

c. 1586.  C’tess Pembroke, Ps. CIV. vii. Thence, Lord, thy leaved people bud and blow.

1601.  Holland, Pliny, II. 216. A foursquare stem,… leaued like vnto an Oke.

a. 1711.  Ken, Sion, Poet. Wks. 1721, IV. 324. The Flow’rs were blown, the Vine was leav’d.

1864.  Boutell, Her. Hist. & Pop., xxi. § 6. 364. Three lilies, slipped and leaved.

  b.  Having leaves or foliage (of a specified number or kind).

1393.  Langl., P. Pl., C. XVIII. 48. Then grace sholde growe ȝut and grene-leued wexe.

1583.  Leg. Bp. St. Androis, 303. Sanct Jhones nutt, and the fo^re levit claver.

1607.  Topsell, Four-f. Beasts (1658), 258. Three-leaved grass is also good for Horses.

a. 1729.  Congreve, trans. Ovid’s Art of Love, III. There tamarisks with thick leav’d box are found.

1787.  Fam. Plants, I. 13. Perianth one-leaved.

1847.  Tennyson, Princess, III. 159. The thick-leaved platans of the vale.

  2.  Resembling a (plant-)leaf.

1841.  S. C. Hall, Ireland (1842), II. 84. The base of the former [pillar in the Caves of Tipperary] is not simple, but composed of stalks cemented together, and having leaved or foliated edges.

1865.  Spectator, 14 Jan., 49. He himself describes them as more like ‘willow-leaves.’… These leaved forms are different in size.

  † 3.  Reduced to a leaf or thin plate; laminate. Obs.

1559.  Morwyng, Evonym., 240. Mixt [sic] the siedes of Rew pund with leued gould.

1658.  Sir T. Mayerne, Receipts Cookery, xxi. 24. Making them [minced pies] in a paste, or dough, very thin, and, as we formerly called it, a leaved paste.

  4.  Of a door: Having (two) leaves.

1610.  Guillim, Heraldry, II. i. (1660), 50. The two leaved silver gates bright raies did cast.

1611.  Bible, Isa. xlv. 1. I will loose the lines of kings to open before him the two leaued gates, and the gates shall not be shut.

1611.  Cotgr., s.v. Batant, A fowlding, or two leaued, doore.

1847.  C. Brontë, Jane Eyre, I. xii. 223. The great dining-room, whose two-leaved door stood open.

  5.  Furnished with leaves (of paper).

1629.  Gaule, Pract. Theories, Rules to Rdr. ’Tis not a winged Bird, but leaued Booke.

1817.  Byron, Beppo, liv. A new Magazine With all the fashions which the last month wore, Coloured, and silver paper leav’d between That and the title-page.