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A privilege of setting up, and moving about, folds for sheep, in any fields within manors, in order to manure them; -- often reserved to himself by the lord of the manor. Spelman.

A folding stool, or portable seat, made to fold up in the manner of a camo stool. It was formerly placed in the choir for a bishop, when he offciated in any but his own cathedral church. Fairholt.

ks (Civil Engin.), construction works to facilitate the erection of the main work, as scaffolding, bridge centering, etc.

A curved fold or process of the dura mater or the peritoneum; esp., one of the partitionlike folds of the dura mater which extend into the great fissures of the brain.

Resembling a fan; -- specifically (Bot.), folded up like a fan, as certain leaves; plicate.

e; -- called also the isthmus of the fauces. On either side of the passage two membranous folds, called the pillars of the fauces, inclose the tonsils.

A form of seam joining two pieces of cloth, the edges being folded together and the stitches taken through both thicknesses.

t intrusion from without or straying from within. Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold. Milton.

by which the surface of the cerebrum is divided; esp., the furrows first formed by the infolding of the whole wall of the cerebrum. -- Fissure needle (Surg.), a spiral needle for catching together the gaping lips of wounds. Knight. -- Fissure of rolando (Anat.), the furrow separating the frontal from the parietal lo…

p) consonant. Flat arch. (Arch.) See under Arch, n., 2. (b). -- Flat cap, cap paper, not folded. See under Paper. -- Flat chasing, in fine art metal working, a mode of ornamenting silverware, etc., producing figures by dots and lines made with a punching tool. Knight. -- Flat chisel, a sculptor's chisel for smoothin…

A bending; a part bent; a fold. Bacon.

A turn; a bend; a fold; a curve. Varying with the flexures of the valley through which it meandered. British Quart. Rev.

e of a group of squirrels, of the genera Pteromus and Sciuropterus, having parachute-like folds of skin extending from the fore to the hind legs, which enable them to make very long leaps.

a), called also Venus's flytrap, the leaves of which are fringed with stiff bristles, and fold together when certain hairs on their upper surface are touched, thus seizing insects that light on them. The insects so caught are afterwards digested by a secretion from the upper surface of the leaves.

A sheet of paper once folded.

A writing paper made in sheets, ordinarily 16 x 13 inches, and folded so as to make a page 13 x 8 inches. See Paper.

The fold of skin which covers the glans of the penis; the prepuce.

An arch or fold; as, the fornix, or vault, of the cranium; the fornix, or reflection, of the conjuctiva.

A small fold of membrane, connecting the labia in the posterior part of the vulva.

A connecting fold of membrane serving to support or restrain any part; as, the frænum of the tongue.