Noun : a rose leaf. ,silver leaf. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : to leaf through a book. From Dictionary.com.
I'd settle for something that's fast enough to allow for true "leafing" through a book. From Wordnik.com. [Gizmodo] Reference
If she looks upon the hedge or up the leafing tree. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference
HARRIS: A rolling for a record and leafing nothing to chance. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 20, 2006] Reference
A quick leafing through the other envelopes produced nothing. From Wordnik.com. [Noble House]
And there's video of him sort of leafing through -- there he is. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 7, 2006] Reference
He's leafing through his wallet, trying to find out, you know. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 7, 2006] Reference
D'Agosta plucked it from the cabinet and began leafing through it. From Wordnik.com. [Dance Of Death]
Robbie Conal's Dalai Lama portrait includes a layer of gold leafing. From Wordnik.com. [Mat Gleason: Screenprinting Survey Spans the Streets to the Sublime] Reference
He glanced up at Charles then went back to leafing through a magazine. From Wordnik.com. [New Carpet] Reference
And, leafing through it, I noted a class called How to Marry a Millionaire. From Wordnik.com. [Yellow Dining Room] Reference
"Marvelous," he muttered, leafing through the loose parchment pages. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers' War]
And actually leafing through the actual manuscripts and notebooks and journals. From Wordnik.com. [Jonatha Brooke: Rediscovering Woody Guthrie] Reference
She took out a day planner thicker than my waist and started leafing through it. From Wordnik.com. [Tell No One]
He stacked them together, then began leafing through them to find the one he wanted. From Wordnik.com. [Hellfire]
The catalpa and China-bell trees were in full blossom and the pecans were leafing out. From Wordnik.com. [The Twenty-fifth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion History, Reminiscences, Description of Battle of Irish Bend, Carrying of Pay Roll, Roster] Reference
She didn't look up as I lifted Cassie's chart from the rack and began leafing through. From Wordnik.com. [Devil's Waltz]
The others were getting organized, settling down for the day, leafing through reports. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Little Crosses]
OK, but mercenary claques, I thought, after I caught one leafing through my check stubs. From Wordnik.com. [The Macphersons: Week 51: All Things French] Reference
This is the locust tree, and May is its time for leafing out in the tenderest of greens. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Trees at Elmridge] Reference
Following this, leafing re-occurred, but at a slower rate and somewhat later than normal. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953] Reference
For the experimenters, the McKinster seems to be about "average" in its time of leafing out. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953] Reference
Glinn opened the folder with his good hand and began leafing through it, scanning the pages. From Wordnik.com. [Dance Of Death]
He was leafing through legal papers on the closed-circuit video feed in his maroon jail shirt. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 2, 2009] Reference
Huenengarth/Zimberg/Bill was standing across the room, in a corner, leafing through a magazine. From Wordnik.com. [Devil's Waltz]
A sleepy - eyed Sikh was leafing through a newspaper in his native tongue behind the front desk. From Wordnik.com. [2nd Chance]
As I rebundled the file, perfunctorily leafing through the last few items, something hit my eye. From Wordnik.com. [2nd Chance]
Unable to work, Georges started leafing through articles in magazines and fiddling with his Treo. From Wordnik.com. [How To Make The Cell Phone Into A Portable Scanner] Reference
In a hammock hung between two leafing apple trees, a woman lay, so very still that she seemed sleeping. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Robin] Reference
I turn around for 30 seconds to buy some supplies and another customer is leafing through my visa pages. From Wordnik.com. [Worlds Apart: China And Silicon Valley] Reference
You could have knocked me over with a turkey feather, when I saw the kind of book he was leafing through. From Wordnik.com. [Shenanigans at Sugar Creek] Reference
Franquette and Mayette, over there and with us, were anywhere from ten days to two weeks later leafing out. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Seventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. September 8 and 9, 1916.] Reference
These trees were planted on low ground and were killed the first year by late spring frosts after leafing out twice. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953] Reference
Then enters the element of suspense, between the time of leafing out and the time when the little nut clusters appear. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953] Reference
Usually he gave her a nod, a Hello, Mom, and then he started leafing through the automotive section of the Pennysaver. From Wordnik.com. [Beautiful Are the Feet: Part One] Reference
The only hardiness against late spring frosts is the characteristic of leafing out late, thus escaping most of such frosts. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report Wooster, Ohio, September 3, 4, 5, 1946] Reference
Only once, when he caught me leafing through the catalog to the current retrospective, did he voluntarily discuss a picture. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Of The Moment] Reference
But after leafing through his talking points, perched on a small black box in front of his chair, the president was clearly struggling. From Wordnik.com. [Trail Mix: Off Message] Reference
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