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A fold; a plait; a turn or twist, as of a cord. Arbuthnot.

A small stick or rod of steel, formerly used in adjusting the plaits of ruffs. Shak.

led with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called also Adam-and-Eve.

A band of linen, muslin, or the like, fluted, folded, or plaited so as somewhat to resemble a row of quills.

A rawhide whip plaited with two thongs of buffalo hide T. Roosevelt.

A plaited, quilled, or goffered strip of lace, net, ribbon, or other material, -- used in place of collars or cuffs, and as a trimming for women's dresses and bonnets. [Written also rouche.]

A muslin or linen collar plaited, crimped, or fluted, worn formerly by both sexes, now only by women and children. Here to-morrow with his best ruff on. Shak. His gravity is much lessened since the late proclamation came out against ruffs; . . . they were come to that height of excess herein, that twenty shillings were…

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

A fold or plait; a wrinkle. Dryden.

A braided cord or fabric formed by plaiting together rope yarns or other small stuff.

Plaiting or joining together; -- said of a bone next above the quadrate in the mandibular suspensorium of many fishes, which unites together the other bones of the suspensorium. -- n.

A knot, braid, or plait of hair. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

A horizontal sewed fold, such as is made in a garment, to shorten it; a plait.

To remove the plaits of; to smooth. W. Browne.

To draw down, as a veil; to lay in folds or plaits, as a veil.

A grass used for making ropes or for plaiting, esp. Agrostis Spica-ventis. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Shelley.