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Pentaptych :: Pentaptych (n.) A picture, or combination of pictures, consisting of a centerpiece and double folding doors or wings, as for an altarpiece..

Hurdle :: Hurdle (n.) A movable frame of wattled twigs, osiers, or withes and stakes, or sometimes of iron, used for inclosing land, for folding sheep and cattle, for gates, etc.; also, in fortification, used as revetments, and for other purposes..

Development :: Development (n.) The elaboration of a theme or subject; the unfolding of a musical idea; the evolution of a whole piece or movement from a leading theme or motive.

Infoldment :: Infoldment (n.) The act of infolding; the state of being infolded.

Unfoldment :: Unfoldment (n.) The acct of unfolding, or the state of being unfolded..

Evolution :: Evolution (n.) A general name for the history of the steps by which any living organism has acquired the morphological and physiological characters which distinguish it; a gradual unfolding of successive phases of growth or development.

Inflorescence :: Inflorescence (n.) A flowering; the putting forth and unfolding of blossoms.

Upher :: Upher (n.) A fir pole of from four to seven inches diameter, and twenty to forty feet long, sometimes roughly hewn, used for scaffoldings, and sometimes for slight and common roofs, for which use it is split..

Folding :: Folding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fol.

Enfoldment :: Enfoldment (n.) The act of infolding. See Infoldment.

Crease :: Crease (n.) A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced..

Inversion :: Inversion (n.) The folding back of strata upon themselves, as by upheaval, in such a manner that the order of succession appears to be reversed..

Reef :: Reef (v. t.) To reduce the extent of (as a sail) by roiling or folding a certain portion of it and making it fast to the yard or spar.

Explication :: Explication (n.) The act of opening, unfolding, or explaining; explanation; exposition; interpretation..

Plication :: Plication (n.) A folding or fold; a plait.

Ovulist :: Ovulist (n.) A believer in the theory (called encasement theory), current during the last century, that the egg was the real animal germ, and that at the time of fecundation the spermatozoa simply gave the impetus which caused the unfolding of the egg, in which all generations were inclosed one within the other. Also called ovist..

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..

Valve :: Valve (n.) A door; especially, one of a pair of folding doors, or one of the leaves of such a door..

Anagnorisis :: Anagnorisis (n.) The unfolding or denouement.

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

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