Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Cinquefoil.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Cinquefoil; five-finger.

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Examples

  • Movies are divided by subject - comedies, dramas, sci-fi, action - and rated by marijuana leaves instead of stars "Animal House" is a five-leaf film; "Dude, Where's My Car" gets 21/2 leaves.

    3 books on pot culture Post 2010

  • Movies are divided by subject - comedies, dramas, sci-fi, action - and rated by marijuana leaves instead of stars "Animal House" is a five-leaf film; "Dude, Where's My Car" gets 21/2 leaves.

    3 books on pot culture Post 2010

  • Noh looked at the green stuff closely, expecting to see a few mutants mixed in with a bunch of normal-looking three-leafers, but instead she found that every plant she saw was an honest-to-goodness five-leaf clover.

    Among the Ghosts Amber Benson 2010

  • Noh looked at the green stuff closely, expecting to see a few mutants mixed in with a bunch of normal-looking three-leafers, but instead she found that every plant she saw was an honest-to-goodness five-leaf clover.

    Among the Ghosts Amber Benson 2010

  • Noh looked at the green stuff closely, expecting to see a few mutants mixed in with a bunch of normal-looking three-leafers, but instead she found that every plant she saw was an honest-to-goodness five-leaf clover.

    Among the Ghosts Amber Benson 2010

  • The finger bones had pointed to avatars, and it seemed to me the avatars had sown plants that I might find them now, and harvest what was needed: shiny evergreen leaves of the holm oak, barberries, five-leaf root, bullace branches, and tender feverfew leaves that had lingered into winter.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • The finger bones had pointed to avatars, and it seemed to me the avatars had sown plants that I might find them now, and harvest what was needed: shiny evergreen leaves of the holm oak, barberries, five-leaf root, bullace branches, and tender feverfew leaves that had lingered into winter.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • The finger bones had pointed to avatars, and it seemed to me the avatars had sown plants that I might find them now, and harvest what was needed: shiny evergreen leaves of the holm oak, barberries, five-leaf root, bullace branches, and tender feverfew leaves that had lingered into winter.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • His was, rather, a five-leaf clover, like this: [Quickly add the fifth leaf to the drawing, and insert the letter P, completing Fig. 14.] 'Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do,' says the Bible, 'do it with thy might.'

    Crayon and Character: Truth Made Clear Through Eye and Ear Or, Ten-Minute Talks with Colored Chalks 1900

  • The island is in the shape of a five-leaf clover, and the bays are all surrounded with tall trees and bushes, so that a vessel could be hidden there without half trying.

    The Rover Boys on the Great Lakes Or, the secret of the island cave Edward Stratemeyer 1896

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