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The double baglike fold of serous membrane which incloses the heart.

ch pew, as a stall, formerly used by money lenders, etc.; a box in theater; a pen; a sheepfold. [Obs.] Pepys. Milton. Pew opener, an usher in a church. [Eng.] Dickens.

A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat; as, a box plait. The plaits and foldings of the drapery. Addison.

Folded; doubled over; braided; figuratively, involved; intricate; artful. Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides. Shak.

lan of a constitution; the plan of an expedition. God's plans like lines pure and white unfold. M. R. Smith.

The closed sac formed by the pleural membrane about each lung, or the fold of membrane connecting each lung with the body wall.

Plaited; folded like a fan; as, a plicate leaf. -- Pli"cate*ly, adv.

A folding or fold; a plait. Richardson.

A fold; a doubling; a plication. Dr. H. More.

In the form of a ply, fold, or doubling. [Obs.] Pennant.

To weave; to braid; to fold; to plait.[Obs.] "To sew and plight." Chaucer. A plighted garment of divers colors. Milton.

ay, novel, romance, or poem, comprising a complication of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means. If the plot or intrigue must be natural, and such as springs from the subject, then the winding up of the plot must be a probable consequence of all that went before. Pope.…

To multiply; to make manifold. [R.]

To lay on closely, or in folds; to work upon steadily, or with repeated acts; to press upon; to urge importunately; as, to ply one with questions, with solicitations, or with drink. And plies him with redoubled strokes Dryden. He plies the duke at morning and at night. Shak.

A knife with one or more blades, which fold into the handle so as to admit of being carried in the pocket.

An instrument for multiplying copies of a writing; a manifold writer; a copying machine.

Having gates. [Obs.] We took the sevenfold-ported Thebes. Chapman.

are confined when taken in trespassing, or when going at large in violation of law; a pinfold. Shak.

for libelous, seditious, or morally pernicious matters. -- Press bed, a bed that may be folded, and inclosed, in a press or closet. Boswell. -- Press of sail, (Naut.), as much sail as the state of the wind will permit.

Proceeding from, as from a parent; derived, as from an ancestor. [R.] The threefold distinction of profectitious, adventitious, and professional was ascertained. Gibbon.