foliate

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. Of or relating to leaves.
2. adj. Shaped like a leaf.
3. adj. Geology Foliated.
4. v. To hammer or cut (metal) into thin leaf or foil.
5. v. To coat (glass, for example) with metal foil.
6. v. To furnish or adorn with metal foil.
7. v. To separate into thin layers or laminae.
8. v. To decorate with foliage or foils: an arch that is foliated in the Gothic style.
9. v. To number the leaves of (a manuscript, for example).
10. v. To produce foliage.
11. v. To split into thin leaflike layers or folia.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To beat into a leaf, thin plate, or lamina; shape or dispose like a leaf; divide into foils or leaves.
2. To spread over with a thin coat of tin and quicksilver, etc.: as, to foliate a looking-glass.
3. Beaten into the form of leaf or thin plate; foliated.
4. In botany, leafy; furnished with leaves: as, a foliate stalk.
5. In zoology, expanded in a leaf-like form; foliaceous.
6. In architecture: To adorn by means of foliation. See foliation, 7.
7. To divide, as an arch, into smaller arches or foils. See foil, 7.
8. Arranged in foliations: said of a pattern: divided into foliations: said of a bounding line or outline.

Wiktionary

1. adj. of or relating to leaves
2. adj. shaped like a leaf
3. adj. geology foliated
4. v. To form into leaves.
5. v. To beat into a leaf, or thin plate.
6. v. To spread over with a thin coat of tin and quicksilver.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. (Bot.) Furnished with leaves; leafy; as, a foliate stalk.
2. v. To beat into a leaf, or thin plate.
3. v. To spread over with a thin coat of tin and quicksilver.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. hammer into thin flat foils
2. adj. (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata
3. v. decorate with leaves
4. v. number the pages of a book or manuscript
5. adj. ornamented with foliage or foils
6. v. grow leaves
7. adj. (often used as a combining form) having or resembling a leaf or having a specified kind or number of leaves
8. v. coat or back with metal foil