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One who, or that which, folds; esp., a flat, knifelike instrument used for folding paper.

Nonsense. [Colloq.]

The act of making a fold or folds; also, a fold; a doubling; a plication. The lower foldings of the vest. Addison.

Having no fold. Milman.

or having the texture or nature of, a leaf; having leaves intermixed with flowers; as, a foliaceous spike.

Leaves, collectively, as produced or arranged by nature; leafage; as, a tree or forest of beautiful foliage.

Furnished with foliage; leaved; as, the variously foliaged mulberry.

Consisting of, or pertaining to, leaves; as, foliar appendages. Foliar gap (Bot.), an opening in the fibrovascular system of a stem at the point of origin of a leaf. -- Foliar trace (Bot.), a particular fibrovascular bundle passing down into the stem from a leaf.

Furnished with leaves; leafy; as, a foliate stalk. Foliate curve. (Geom.) Same as Folium.

Having leaves, or leaflike projections; as, a foliated shell.

The process of forming into a leaf or leaves.

1. Foliage; leafage. [Obs.] Shuckford.

Goldsmith's foil. [R.] Sprat.

Producing leaves. [Written also foliiferous.]

Foolishly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A sheet of paper once folded.

Of or pertaining to leaflets; -- used in composition; as, bi- foliolate. Gray.

One of the distinct parts of a compound leaf; a leaflet.

See Feuillemort.

Having many leaves; leafy.