Definition of fold

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Fold (v. i.) To confine sheep in a fold.

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Quintuple :: Quintuple (v. t.) To make fivefold, or five times as much or many..
Strass :: Strapwork (n.) A kind of ornament consisting of a narrow fillet or band folded, crossed, and interlaced..
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..
Convolution :: Convolution (n.) The state of being rolled upon itself, or rolled or doubled together; a tortuous or sinuous winding or fold, as of something rolled or folded upon itself..
Evolution :: Evolution (n.) The act of unfolding or unrolling; hence, in the process of growth; development; as, the evolution of a flower from a bud, or an animal from the egg..
Fourfold :: Fourfold (a. & adv.) Four times; quadruple; as, a fourfold division..
Faldage :: Faldage (n.) A privilege of setting up, and moving about, folds for sheep, in any fields within manors, in order to manure them; -- often reserved to himself by the lord of the manor..
Implicit :: Implicit (a.) Infolded; entangled; complicated; involved.
Eightfold :: Eightfold (a.) Eight times a quantity.
Leaf :: Leaf (n.) Something which is like a leaf in being wide and thin and having a flat surface, or in being attached to a larger body by one edge or end; as : (a) A part of a book or folded sheet containing two pages upon its opposite sides. (b) A side, division, or part, that slides or is hinged, as of window shutters, folding doors, etc. (c) The movable side of a table. (d) A very thin plate; as, gold leaf. (e) A portion of fat lying in a separate fold or layer. (f) One of the teeth of a pinion, es
Seam :: Seam (n.) The fold or line formed by sewing together two pieces of cloth or leather.
Hermeneutical :: Hermeneutical (a.) Unfolding the signification; of or pertaining to interpretation; exegetical; explanatory; as, hermeneutic theology, or the art of expounding the Scriptures; a hermeneutic phrase..
Manifoldness :: Manifoldness (n.) A generalized concept of magnitude.
Inflexure :: Inflexure (n.) An inflection; a bend or fold.
Quadruple :: Quadruple (v. i.) To be multiplied by four; to increase fourfold; to become four times as much.
Denary :: Denary (a.) Containing ten; tenfold; proceeding by tens; as, the denary, or decimal, scale..
Manyplies :: Manyplies (n.) The third division, or that between the reticulum, or honeycomb stomach, and the abomasum, or rennet stomach, in the stomach of ruminants; the omasum; the psalterium. So called from the numerous folds in its mucous membrane. See Illust of Ruminant..
Scaffolding :: Scaffolding (n.) A scaffold; a supporting framework; as, the scaffolding of the body..
Complicate :: Complicate (a.) Folded together, or upon itself, with the fold running lengthwise..
Penfold :: Penfold (n.) See Pinfold.
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