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To infold. See Infold.

The act of infolding. See Infoldment.

See Pinfold.

d seven times; having seven thicknesses; increased to seven times the size or amount. "Sevenfold rage." Milton.

In tens; consisting of ten in one; ten times repeated. The grisly Terror . . . grew tenfold More dreadful and deform. Milton.

l or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness. Opposed the rocky orb Of tenfold adamant, his ample shield. Milton.

or as with, a bolt or bolts, as a door, a timber, fetters; to shackle; to restrain. Let tenfold iron bolt my door. Langhorn. Which shackles accidents and bolts up change. Shak.

resses nothing, but when placed at the right hand of a whole number, increases its value tenfold.

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

Of or pertaining to decimals; numbered or proceeding by tens; having a tenfold increase or decrease, each unit being ten times the unit next smaller; as, decimal notation; a decimal coinage. Decimal arithmetic, the common arithmetic, in which numeration proceeds by tens. -- Decimal fraction, a fraction in which the de…

Tenfold. [R.]

Containing ten; tenfold; proceeding by tens; as, the denary, or decimal, scale.

That which is doubled over or together; a doubling; a plait; a fold. Rolled up in sevenfold double Of plagues. Marston.

To bind or encircle with lace, or as with lace; to lace; to encircle; to enfold; hence, to entangle. Ropes of pearl her neck and breast enlace. P. Fletcher.

To be twined or twisted together; to become mutually involved or enfolded.

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.

Having gates. [Obs.] We took the sevenfold-ported Thebes. Chapman.

Flowing sevenfold; divided into seven streams or currents. [R.] Fuller.

Seven times as much; multiplied by seven; sevenfold.

The earth's surface; the earth. [Poetic] Tenfold the length of this terrene. Milton.