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One of the tubes or folds of the mantle border of a bivalve or gastropod mollusk by which water is conducted into the gill cavity. See Illust. under Mya, and Lamellibranchiata.

To explain; to resolve; to unfold; to clear up out to a result or conclusion; as, to solve a doubt; to solve difficulties; to solve a problem. True piety would effectually solve such scruples. South. God shall solve the dark decrees of fate. Tickell.

A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, or the like; a scaffold; a staging.

An upright support, as one of the poles of a scaffold; any upright in framing.

ly, gravely, or resolutely. Home the swain retreats, His flock before him stepping to the fold. Thomson.

y came near to the steward of Joseph's house. Gen. xliii. 19. As good stewards of the manifold grace of God. 1 Pet. iv. 10.

A kind of ornament consisting of a narrow fillet or band folded, crossed, and interlaced.

A process or fold below the tongue in some animals.

ers; an overseer; an inspector. Were 't not madness then, To make the fox surveyor of the fold Shak.

To move as a lash; to lash. [Obs.] Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. Milton.

rata dipping toward a common line or plane; as, a synclinal trough or valley; a synclinal fold; -- opposed to anticlinal.

A synclinal fold.

ake down a potion. (c) To pull down; to pull to pieces; as, to take down a house or a scaffold. (d) To record; to write down; as, to take down a man's words at the time he utters them. -- To take effect, To take fire. See under Effect, and Fire. -- To take ground to the right or to the left (Mil.), to extend the line…

lusca in which the gills are usually situated on one side of the back, and protected by a fold of the mantle. When there is a shell, it is usually thin and delicate and often rudimentary. The aplysias and the bubble shells are examples.

A fold of the dura mater which separates the cerebellum from the cerebrum and often incloses a process or plate of the skull called the bony tentorium.

Threefold; thrice-paired. Blount.

Threefold; triple; consisting of three; ternate. Tern flowers (Bot.), flowers growing three and three together. -- Tern leaves (Bot.), leaves arranged in threes, or three by three, or having three in each whorl or set. -- Tern peduncles (Bot.), three peduncles growing together from the same axis. -- Tern schooner (N…

The earth's surface; the earth. [Poetic] Tenfold the length of this terrene. Milton.

pth, or to a greater depth than usual; as, land covered thick with manure. Thick and threefold, in quick succession, or in great numbers. [Obs.] L'Estrange.

nct webs inwrought together in weaving, as cloth or carpeting; having three strands; threefold.