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or cover with folds; to envelop; to inwrap; to inclose; to involve. Gilded tombs do worms infold. Shak. Infold his limbs in bands. Blackmore.

The act of infolding; the state of being infolded.

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

r glandular upper surface a viscid fluid, to which insects adhere, after which the margin infolds and the insects are digested by the plant. The species are found mostly in the North Temperate zone.

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

To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or give forth; as, to develop theories; a motor that develops 100 horse power. These serve to develop its tenets. Milner. The 20th was spent in strengthening our position and de…

To inclose; to infold. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To infold. See Infold.

The act of infolding. See Infoldment.

To infold, as in a mist.

ts 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…

To inclose within folds or plaitings; to envelop; to infold; to clasp; to embrace. A face folded in sorrow. J. Webster. We will descend and fold him in our arms. Shak.

A gripe or seizure of the hand; a seizure by embrace, or infolding in the arms. "The grasps of love." Shak.

To infold; to fold together; to interweave. The meeting boughs and implicated leaves. Shelley.

Infolded; entangled; complicated; involved. [Obs.] Milton. In his woolly fleece I cling implicit. Pope.

To infold or involve; to wrap up. [Obs.] "His head in curls implied." Chapman.

To wrap up; to infold; to swathe. Inswathed sometimes in wandering mist. Tennyson.

The act of involving or infolding.

To envelop, infold, entangle, or embarrass; as, to involve a person in debt or misery.

To cover by wrapping; to involve; to infold; as, to inwrap in a cloak, in smoke, etc.