▪ I. unˈleaved, ppl. a.1
[Cf. prec.]
Stripped of leaves.
| 1598 Sylvester Du Bartas ii. i. i. Eden 122 Amorous Myrtles and immortall Bays Never un-leav'd. 1610 G. Fletcher Christ's Vict. ii. lix. Ode 25 See, see the flowers..How they all unleaved die. 1624 Heywood Gunaik. iv. 171 Behold how this lettice now unleaved looketh. 1870 Rossetti Poems, Ho. Life v, Nor quite unleaved [is] our songless grove. |
▪ II. unˈleaved, ppl. a.2
[un-1 8.]
Not furnished with leaves.
| 1501 Douglas Pal. Hon. i. iii, Muskane treis.., Combust, barrant, vnblomit and vnleift. 1770 Langhorne Plutarch III. 38 Unleav'd, unhonour'd e'en with bark, See this sad tree, the gibbet of Alcæus! |