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Octuple :: Octuple (a.) Eightfold.

Cradle :: Cradle (n.) A suspended scaffold used in shafts.

Amphibology :: Amphibology (n.) A phrase, discourse, or proposition, susceptible of two interpretations; and hence, of uncertain meaning. It differs from equivocation, which arises from the twofold sense of a single term..

Siphon :: Siphon (n.) One of the tubes or folds of the mantle border of a bivalve or gastropod mollusk by which water is conducted into the gill cavity. See Illust. under Mya, and Lamellibranchiata..

Tentorium :: Tentorium (n.) A fold of the dura mater which separates the cerebellum from the cerebrum and often incloses a process or plate of the skull called the bony tentorium.

Book :: Book (n.) A collection of sheets of paper, or similar material, blank, written, or printed, bound together; commonly, many folded and bound sheets containing continuous printing or writing..

Deploy :: Deploy (v. t. & i.) To open out; to unfold; to spread out (a body of troops) in such a way that they shall display a wider front and less depth; -- the reverse of ploy; as, to deploy a column of troops into line of battle..

Ply :: Ply (v.) A fold; a plait; a turn or twist, as of a cord..

Ply :: Ply (v. t.) To lay on closely, or in folds; to work upon steadily, or with repeated acts; to press upon; to urge importunately; as, to ply one with questions, with solicitations, or with drink..

Evolution :: Evolution (n.) That series of changes under natural law which involves continuous progress from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous in structure, and from the single and simple to the diverse and manifold in quality or function. The pocess is by some limited to organic beings; by others it is applied to the inorganic and the psychical. It is also applied to explain the existence and growth of institutions, manners, language, civilization, and every product of human activity. The agencies and la

Plication :: Plication (n.) A folding or fold; a plait.

Plicature :: Plicature (n.) A fold; a doubling; a plication.

Ruffle :: Ruffle (v. t.) To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle..

Mount :: Mount (n.) To get up on anything, as a platform or scaffold; especially, to seat one's self on a horse for riding..

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

Frenum :: Frenum (n.) A connecting fold of membrane serving to support or restrain any part; as, the fraenum of the tongue..

Fold :: Fold (v.) That which is folded together, or which infolds or envelops; embrace..

Duplex :: Duplex (a.) Double; twofold.

Plicated :: Plicated (a.) Plaited; folded like a fan; as, a plicate leaf..

Flytrap :: Flytrap (n.) A plant (Dionaea muscipula), 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..

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