Definition of fold

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Fold (v. t.) To cover or wrap up; to conceal.

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Decuple :: Decuple (v. t.) To make tenfold; to multiply by ten.
Quadruple :: Quadruple (a.) Fourfold; as, to make quadruple restitution; a quadruple alliance..
Quadruplication :: Quadruplication (n.) The act of making fourfold; a taking four times the simple sum or amount.
Fourchette :: Fourchette (n.) A small fold of membrane, connecting the labia in the posterior part of the vulva..
Multifold :: Multifold (a.) Many times doubled; manifold; numerous.
Decuple :: Decuple (a.) Tenfold.
Decipher :: Decipher (v. t.) To find out, so as to be able to make known the meaning of; to make out or read, as words badly written or partly obliterated; to detect; to reveal; to unfold..
Ledger :: Ledger (n.) A horizontal piece of timber secured to the uprights and supporting floor timbers, a staircase, scaffolding, or the like. It differs from an intertie in being intended to carry weight..
Sevenfold :: Sevenfold (a.) Repeated seven times; having seven thicknesses; increased to seven times the size or amount.
Dimension :: Dimension (n.) The degree of manifoldness of a quantity; as, time is quantity having one dimension; volume has three dimensions, relative to extension..
Lap :: Lap (n.) To fold; to bend and lay over or on something; as, to lap a piece of cloth..
Purse :: Purse (v. t.) To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles, like the mouth of a purse; to pucker; to knit..
Octodecimo :: Octodecimo (n.) A book composed of sheets each of which is folded into eighteen leaves; hence; indicating more or less definitely a size of book, whose sheets are so folded; -- usually written 18mo or 18ยก, and called eighteenmo..
Drapery :: Drapery (n.) A textile fabric used for decorative purposes, especially when hung loosely and in folds carefully disturbed; as: (a) Garments or vestments of this character worn upon the body, or shown in the representations of the human figure in art. (b) Hangings of a room or hall, or about a bed..
Ply :: Ply (v. t.) To lay on closely, or in folds; to work upon steadily, or with repeated acts; to press upon; to urge importunately; as, to ply one with questions, with solicitations, or with drink..
Explate :: Explate (v. t.) To explain; to unfold.
Elephant :: Elephant (n.) A mammal of the order Proboscidia, of which two living species, Elephas Indicus and E. Africanus, and several fossil species, are known. They have a proboscis or trunk, and two large ivory tusks proceeding from the extremity of the upper jaw, and curving upwards. The molar teeth are large and have transverse folds. Elephants are the largest land animals now existing..
Inswathe :: Inswathe (v. t.) To wrap up; to infold; to swathe.
Pentaptych :: Pentaptych (n.) A picture, or combination of pictures, consisting of a centerpiece and double folding doors or wings, as for an altarpiece..
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..
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