Emily Dickinson Lexicon

LEAF, n. [plur. Leaves; Sax. leafe; D. loof; G. laub; Sw. lof; Dan. löv; Goth. lauf.]

1. In botany, leaves are organs which usually shoot from the sides of the stems and branches, but sometimes from the root; sometimes they are sessile; more generally supported by petioles. They are of various forms, flat, extended, linear, cylindric, &c.
2. A part of a book containing two pages.
3. The side of a double door. 1 Kings vi.
4. Something resembling a leaf in thinness and extension; very thin plate; as, gold leaf.
5. The movable side of a table.