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Fold
(fld), v. t.[imp. & p. p.Folded; p. pr. & vb. n.Folding.] [OE. folden, falden, AS. fealdan; akin to OHG. faltan, faldan, G. falten, Icel. falda, Dan. folde, Sw. flla, Goth. falan, cf. Gr. di-pla°sios twofold, Skr. pua a fold. Cf. Fauteuil.]
1. To lap or lay in plaits or folds; to lay one part over another part of; to double; as, to fold cloth; to fold a letter.
As a vesture shalt thou fold them up.
Heb. i. 12.
2. To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands; as, he folds his arms in despair.
3. To inclose within folds or plaitings; to envelop; to infold; to clasp; to embrace.
A face folded in sorrow.
J. Webster.
We will descend and fold him in our arms.
Shak.
4. To cover or wrap up; to conceal.
Nor fold my fault in cleanly coined excuses.
Shak.

Fold
v. i.To become folded, plaited, or doubled; to close over another of the same kind; to double together; as, the leaves of the door fold. 1 Kings vi. 34.

Fold
n.[From Fold, v. In sense 2 AS. -feald, akin to fealdan to fold.]
1. A doubling,esp. of any flexible substance; a part laid over on another part; a plait; a plication.
Mummies . . . shrouded in a number of folds of linen.
Bacon.
Folds are most common in the rocks of mountainous regions.
J. D. Dana.
2. Times or repetitions; -- used with numerals, chiefly in composition, to denote multiplication or increase in a geometrical ratio, the doubling, tripling, etc., of anything; as, fourfold, four times, increased in a quadruple ratio, multiplied by four.
3. That which is folded together, or which infolds or envelops; embrace.
Shall from your neck unloose his amorous fold.
Shak.
Fold net, a kind of net used in catching birds.

Fold
n.[OE. fald, fold, AS. fald, falod.]
1. An inclosure for sheep; a sheep pen.
Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold.
Milton.
2. A flock of sheep; figuratively, the Church or a church; as, Christ's fold.
There shall be one fold and one shepherd.
John x. 16.
The very whitest lamb in all my fold.
Tennyson.
3. A boundary; a limit. [Obs.] Creech.
Fold yard, an inclosure for sheep or cattle.

Fold
v. t.To confine in a fold, as sheep.

Fold
v. i.To confine sheep in a fold. [R.]
The star that bids the shepherd fold.
Milton.



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