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The quality or state of being triple, or threefold; trebleness. In their trinal triplicities on high. Spenser.

A writing tablet in three parts, two of which fold over on the middle part.

To draw up; to shorten; to fold under; to press into a narrower compass; as, to tuck the bedclothes in; to tuck up one's sleeves.

A narrow piece of linen or the like, folded across the breast, or attached to the gown at the neck, forming a part of a woman's dress in the 17th century and later.

o roll down; to fall suddenly and violently; to be precipitated; as, to tumble from a scaffold. He who tumbles from a tower surely has a greater blow than he who slides from a molehill. South.

A genus of large marine gastropods having a thick heavy shell with conspicuous folds on the columella.

rn or retrace one's steps; hence, to drive away; to repel. Shak. -- To turn down. (a) To fold or double down. (b) To turn over so as to conceal the face of; as, to turn down cards. (c) To lower, or reduce in size, by turning a valve, stopcock, or the like; as, turn down the lights. -- To turn in. (a) To fold or doubl…

A book composed of sheets, each of which is folded into twenty- four leaves; hence, indicating more or less definitely a size of book whose sheets are so folded; -- usually written 24mo, or 24º.

Doubly; in twofold quantity or degree; as, twice the sum; he is twice as fortunate as his neighbor.

A fold of the wall which projects into the cavity of the intestine in bivalve mollusks, certain annelids, starfishes, and some other animals.

simple negative, of the action of the verb to which it is prefixed; as in uncoil, undo, unfold. (b) To nouns to form verbs expressing privation of the thing, quality, or state expressed by the noun, or separation from it; as in unchild, unsex. Sometimes particles and participial adjectives formed with this prefix coinc…

To explain or unfold a matter; to make a revelation. [Obs.] "I will unbolt to you." Shak.

To unwind, unfold, or untie; hence, to undo; to ruin. Shak.

To unfold, or render single.

To loose from a furled state; to unfold; to expand; to open or spread; as, to unfurl sails; to unfurl a flag.

Having, or consisting of, but one fold.

To unfold. [Obs.] Wyclif.

To take out the folds or twists of, as something previously platted; to unfold; to unwreathe.

To unfold; to lay open; to explain. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Hence, to clear from complication or difficulty; to unfold; to solve; as, to unravel a plot.