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Having round leaves.

Having seven leaves.

Having thin or narrow leaves.

(Bot.) Having three leaflets.

A large, square folio, resembling a volume of maps; -- called also atlas folio.

e cap, the cloth undress head covering of an officer of soldier. -- Legal cap, a kind of folio writing paper, made for the use of lawyers, in long narrow sheets which have the fold at the top or "narrow edge." -- To set one's cap, to make a fool of one. (Obs.) Chaucer. -- To set one's cap for, to try to win the favor…

To make a crease or mark in, as by folding or doubling. Creased, like dog's ears in a folio. Gray.

, made by order of William the Conqueror, about 1086. It consists of two volumes, a large folio and a quarto, and gives the proprietors' tenures, arable land, woodland, etc. [Written also Doomsday Book.]

which ommited the Apocrypha. In form it was a small quarto, and soon superseded the large folio of Cranmer's translation. Called also Genevan Bible. -- Geneva convention (Mil.), an agreement made by representatives of the great continental powers at Geneva and signed in 1864, establishing new and more humane regulatio…

One of the divisions of a compound leaf; a foliole.

A genus of plants,mostly herbs, with acid-tasting trifoliolate or multifoliolate leaves; -- called also wood sorrel.

To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuskript; to furnish with folios.

Combining forms signifying flat, level, plane; as planifolious, planimetry, plano-concave.

Plentiful; abundant. [Obs. or Colloq.] If reasons were as plenty as blackberries. Shak. (Folio ed.) Those countries where shrubs are plenty. Goldsmith.

A combining form meaning seven; as, septifolious, seven-leaved; septi-lateral, seven-sided.