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Gold in alluvial deposits; placer gold.

A fastness; a fort or fortress; fortfield place; a place of security.

In tens; consisting of ten in one; ten times repeated. The grisly Terror . . . grew tenfold More dreadful and deform. Milton.

Multiplied by a thousand.

Consisting of three, or thrice repeated; triple; as, threefold justice. A threefold cord is not quickly broken. Eccl. iv. 12.

Threshold. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Fig.: The place or point of entering or beginning, entrance; outset; as, the threshold of life.

Threshold. [Obs.]

A hold in which the agressor bends back his opponent's foot.

imp. & p. p. of Tell.

Twenty times as many.

Twofold. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Twofold; double. [Obs.]

Double; duplicate; multiplied by two; as, a twofold nature; a twofold sense; a twofold argument.

To free from that which blindfolds. Spenser.

p. p. of Undersell.

To open the folds of; to expand; to spread out; as, to unfold a tablecloth. Unfold thy forehead gathered into frowns. Herbert.

One who, or that which, unfolds.

The acct of unfolding, or the state of being unfolded. The extreme unfoldment of the instinctive powers. C. Morris.

To cease to hold; to unhand; to release. [Obs.] Otway.