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A fold; a wrinkle; a collection of folds.

A sum of money offered as a prize, or collected as a present; as, to win the purse; to make up a purse.

The domain of puzzles; puzzles, collectively. C. Kingsley.

A collection or combination of four of a kind.

A set of four parts, things, or person; four things taken collectively; a group of four words, phrases, circumstances, facts, or the like. Delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers. Acts xii. 4. Ye elements, the eldest birth Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run. Milton. The triads and quaternions with which he…

Those who make search or inquiry, taken collectively. The senate hath sent about three several quests to search you out. Shak.

A collector of parish rents. Blount. [Obs.]

One employed to collect profits. [R.] "The pope's questuaries." Jer. Taylor.

A collection or combination of five of a kind.

A collection of twenty-four sheets of paper of the same size and quality, unfolded or having a single fold; one twentieth of a ream.

A place where rabbits are kept; especially, a collection of hutches for tame rabbits.

A collection of logs, boards, pieces of timber, or the like, fastened, together, either for their own collective conveyance on the water, or to serve as a support in conveying other things; a float.

A man who collects, or deals in, rags.

Clothing in general; vesture; garments; -- usually singular in form, with a collective sense. Living, both food and raiment she supplies. Dryden.

To bring together; to collect; to levy; to get together or obtain for use or service; as, to raise money, troops, and the like. "To raise up a rent." Chaucer.

sisting of a headpiece having teeth, and a long handle at right angles to it, -- used for collecting hay, or other light things which are spread over a large surface, or for breaking and smoothing the earth.

A space gone over with a rake; also, the work done, or the quantity of hay, grain, etc., collected, by going once over a space with a rake.

To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.

A small settlement or collection of ranchos, or rude huts, esp. for Indians. [Sp. Amer. & Southern U. S.]

One of the rabble; a low, common sort of person or creature; collectively, the rabble; the common herd; also, a lean, ill- conditioned beast, esp. a deer. [Obs.] He smote of the people seventy men, and fifty thousand of the rascal. Wyclif (1 Kings [1 Samuel] vi. 19). Poor men alone No, no; the noblest deer hath them [h…