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To resolve; to unfold; to clear. They quicken sloth, perplexities untie. Denham.

To unfold or undo, as a tuck; to release from a tuck or fold.

To unfold; to undo; to ravel, as what has been woven.

To open or undo, as what is wrapped or folded. Chaucer.

even inches diameter, and twenty to forty feet long, sometimes roughly hewn, used for scaffoldings, and sometimes for slight and common roofs, for which use it is split. [Spelt also ufer.] [Eng.] Gwilt.

g or upheaval of strata so as to disturb their regularity and uniformity, and to occasion folds, dislocations, and the like.

A door; especially, one of a pair of folding doors, or one of the leaves of such a door. Swift through the valves the visionary fair Repassed. Pope. Heavily closed, . . . the valves of the barn doors. Longfellow.

A little valve or fold; a valvelet; a valvule.

Different; diverse; several; manifold; as, men of various names; various occupations; various colors. So many and so various laws are given. Milton. A wit as various, gay, grave, sage, or wild. Byron.

veral species of large marine gastropods having massive pyriform shells, with conspicuous folds on the columella.

The arrangement of the leaves within the leaf bud, as regards their folding, coiling, rolling, etc.; prefoliation.

The reverse, or left-hand, page of a book or a folded sheet of paper; -- opposed to recto.

flowers. Vexilary æstivation (Bot.), a mode of æstivation in which one large upper petal folds over, and covers, the other smaller petals, as in most papilionaceous plants.

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

Consisting of many folds, coils, or convolutions. But ended foul in many a scaly fold, Voluminous and vast. Milton. Over which dusky draperies are hanging, and voluminous curtains have long since fallen. De Quincey.

Somewhat wan; of a pale hue. No sun, but a wannish glare, In fold upon fold of hueless cloud. Tennyson.

The back of a woman's gown in which one or more very broad folds are carried from the neck to the floor without being held in at the waist, while the front and sides of the gown are shaped to the person and have a belt or its equivalent.

To form, by interweaving or platting twigs. The folded flocks, penned in their wattled cotes. Milton.

Being well folded. [Obs.] "Her well-plighted frock." Spenser.

cord covered with cloth and sewed on a seam or border to strengthen it; an edge of cloth folded on itself, usually over a cord, and sewed down.