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Nine times repeated.

Would not. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Not possessing or holding slaves; as, a nonslaveholding State.

An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.

Having few or imperfect syringeal muscles; -- said of some passerine birds (Oligomyodi).

To exceed in scolding. Shak.

Excessively or presumptuously bold; impudent. Shak. -- O"ver*bold"ly, adv.

Cold to excess. Wiseman.

To hold or value too highly; to estimate at too dear a rate. [Obs.] Shak.

See Pinfold.

A handle for a pen.

A place in which stray cattle or domestic animals are confined; a pound; a penfold. Shak. A parish pinfold begirt by its high hedge. Sir W. Scott.

A place where a pin is fixed.

A tract of low land reclaimed from the sea by of high embankments. [Holland & Belgium]

A kind of coarse bagging, -- used for coal sacks. Weale.

To fold again.

To mold or shape anew or again; to reshape.

imp. & p. p. of Retell.

s for supporting workmen and materials in building, for exhibiting a spectacle upon, for holding the spectators at a show, etc. Pardon, gentles all, The flat, unraised spirits that have dared On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object. Shak.

A scaffold. [R.] Shak.