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arms around; a grasping, as with the hand. Clasp knife, a large knife, the blade of which folds or shuts into the handle. -- Clasp lock, a lock which closes or secures itself by means of a spring.

by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb. Burke. Punishments are manifold, that they may coerce this profligate sort. Ayliffe.

ard and horny, and serving as coverings for the posterior pair, which are membranous, and folded transversely under the others when not in use. The mouth parts form two pairs of jaws (mandibles and maxillæ) adapted for chewing. Most of the Coleoptera are known as beetles and weevils.

A circle; a continent. [Obs.] The tryne compas [the threefold world containing earth, sea, and heaven. Skeat.] Chaucer. Azimuth compass. See under Azimuth. -- Beam compass. See under Beam. -- Compass card, the eircular card attached to the needles of a mariner's compass, on which are marked the thirty-two points or r…

Folded together, or upon itself, with the fold running lengthwise.

To infold; to embrace. [Obs.] Seemed to comply, Cloudlike, the daintie deitie. Herrick.

A folded piece of cloth, pledget of lint, etc., used to cover the dressing of wounds, and so placed as, by the aid of a bandage, to make due pressure on any part.

Folded lengthwise along the midrib, the upper face being within; -- said of leaves or petals in vernation or æstivation.

A doubling together or folding; a duplication. [R.]

onverging; in close contact; as, the connivent petals of a flower, wings of an insect, or folds of membrane in the human system, etc.

mbly or council. To council summons all his mighty peers, Within thick clouds and dark tenfold involved, A gloomy consistory. Milton.

A serpent that kills its prey by inclosing and crushing it with its folds; as, the boa constrictor.

ity. The bishop commanded him . . . to be thrust into the stocks for his manifest and manifold contumacy. Strype.

Folded in tortuous windings. A highly convoluted brain. North Amer. Rev.

being rolled upon itself, or rolled or doubled together; a tortuous or sinuous winding or fold, as of something rolled or folded upon itself. Blackmore.

A contrivance for producing manifold copies of a writing or drawing.

To form or shape into wrinkles or folds, or alternate ridges and grooves, as by drawing, contraction, pressure, bending, or otherwise; to wrinkle; to purse up; as, to corrugate plates of iron; to corrugate the forehead. Corrugated iron, sheet iron bent into a series of alternate ridges and grooves in parallel lines, gi…

A suspended scaffold used in shafts.

A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, howewer produced.

To fold or plait in regular undulation in such a way that the material will retain the shape intended; to give a wavy apperance to; as, to crimp the border of a cap; to crimp a ruffle. Cf. Crisp. The comely hostess in a crimped cap. W. Irving.