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Fauces :: Fauces (n.pl.) The narrow passage from the mouth to the pharynx, situated between the soft palate and the base of the tongue; -- called also the isthmus of the fauces. On either side of the passage two membranous folds, called the pillars of the fauces, inclose the tonsils..

Circumflexion :: Circumflexion (n.) A winding about; a turning; a circuity; a fold.

Twentyfold :: Twentyfold (a.) Twenty times as many.

Purse :: Purse (v. t.) To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles, like the mouth of a purse; to pucker; to knit..

Pleura :: Pleura (n. fem.) The closed sac formed by the pleural membrane about each lung, or the fold of membrane connecting each lung with the body wall..

Refold :: Refold (v. t.) To fold again.

Synclinal :: Synclinal (a.) Formed by strata dipping toward a common line or plane; as, a synclinal trough or valley; a synclinal fold; -- opposed to anticlinal..

Seam :: Seam (n.) The fold or line formed by sewing together two pieces of cloth or leather.

Explicate :: Explicate (v. t.) To unfold; to expand; to lay open.

Quintuple :: Quintuple (a.) Multiplied by five; increased to five times the amount; fivefold.

Sextuple :: Sextuple (a.) Six times as much; sixfold.

Centuple :: Centuple (a.) Hundredfold.

Lip :: Lip (n.) One of the two fleshy folds which surround the orifice of the mouth in man and many other animals. In man the lips are organs of speech essential to certain articulations. Hence, by a figure they denote the mouth, or all the organs of speech, and sometimes speech itself..

Sevenfold :: Sevenfold (adv.) Seven times as much or as often.

Tucker :: Tucker (n.) A narrow piece of linen or the like, folded across the breast, or attached to the gown at the neck, forming a part of a woman's dress in the 17th century and later..

Mordant :: Mordant (n.) Any substance, as alum or copperas, which, having a twofold attraction for organic fibers and coloring matter, serves as a bond of union, and thus gives fixity to, or bites in, the dyes..

Connivent :: Connivent (a.) Brought close together; arched inward so that the points meet; converging; in close contact; as, the connivent petals of a flower, wings of an insect, or folds of membrane in the human system, etc..

Folding :: Folding (n.) The act of making a fold or folds; also, a fold; a doubling; a plication..

Folder :: Folder (n.) One who, or that which, folds; esp., a flat, knifelike instrument used for folding paper..

Mantle :: Mantle (n.) The back of a bird together with the folded wings.

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