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Color or shade of color; tint; dye. "Flowers of all hue." Milton. Hues of the rich unfolding morn. Keble.

d 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.

A fold of muscous membrane often found at the orifice of the vagina; the vaginal membrane.

An appendage or fold on the lower side of the pharynx, in certain insects.

A pole for supporting a scaffold.

To infold; to fold together; to interweave. The meeting boughs and implicated leaves. Shelley.

Infolded; entangled; complicated; involved. [Obs.] Milton. In his woolly fleece I cling implicit. Pope.

To infold or involve; to wrap up. [Obs.] "His head in curls implied." Chapman.

in a case; to inclose; to cover or surround with something solid. Rich plates of gold the folding doors incase. Pope.

To put within a case, envelope, or the like; to fold (a thing) within another or into the same parcel; as, to inclose a letter or a bank note. The inclosed copies of the treaty. Sir W. Temple.

s and passions that infest human life. Addison. And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away. Longfellow.

A bend; a fold; a curve; a turn; a twist.

An inflection; a bend or fold. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

A flowering; the putting forth and unfolding of blossoms.

as: (a) A portion of the printed sheet in certain sizes of books which is cut off before folding, and set into the middle of the folded sheet to complete the succession of paging; -- also called offcut. (b) A page or pages of advertisements inserted.

To wrap up; to infold; to swathe. Inswathed sometimes in wandering mist. Tennyson.

In the theory of evolution: The process by which the manifold is compacted into the relatively simple and permanent. It is supposed to alternate with differentiation as an agent in development.

ubbing or chafing of the skin; especially, an abrasion or excoriation of the skin between folds, as in fat or neglected children.

To be twined or twisted together; to become mutually involved or enfolded.

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