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Not trimmed, covered, or folded under; as, the raw edge of a piece of metal or of cloth.

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. Totten. To reef the paddles, to move the floats of a paddle wheel toward its center so that they will not dip so deeply.

To make as if new; to repair; to restore. The rest refresh the scaly snakes that folDryden. To refresh the memory, to quicken or strengthen it, as by a reference, review, memorandum, or suggestion.

. The earthly author of my blood, Whose youthful spirit, in me regenerate, Doth with a twofold vigor lift me up. Shak.

ule; dominion. He who like a father held his reign. Pope. Saturn's sons received the threefold reign Of heaven, of ocean,, and deep hell beneath. Prior.

To plait or fold again; to fold, as one part over another, again and again.

Folded over or backward; folded back upon itself; as, a replicate leaf or petal; a replicate margin of a shell.

A means or method of resisting; that which resists. Unfold to us some warlike resistance. Shak.

The second stomach of ruminants, in which folds of the mucous membrane form hexagonal cells; -- also called the honeycomb stomach.

A part turned or folded back so as to show the inside, or a piece put on in imitation of such a part, as the lapel of a coat.

A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.

One of the Rhipiptera, a group of insects having wings which fold like a fan; a strepsipter.

A fold or wrinkle. See Rumple.

ysalus antiquorum, or Balænoptera physalus). It has a dorsal fin, and strong longitudinal folds on the throat and belly. Called also razorback.

es of beetles of the family Staphylinidæ, having short elytra beneath which the wings are folded transversely. They are rapid runners, and seldom fly.

To draw into wrinkles or unsightly folds; to crease; as, to ruck up a carpet. Smart.

To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.

A wrinkle; a fold; as, the rugæ of the stomach.

ually marked so as to show inches and fractions of an inch, and jointed so that it may be folded compactly. A judicious artist will use his eye, but he will trust only to his rule. South.

her. rumble seat, a seat in the rear of an automobile, outside the passenger cabin, which folds out from the body