Nor fold my fault in cleanly coined excuses.
Shak.
Fold, v. i. To become folded, plaited, or doubled; to close over
another of the same kind; to double together; as, the leaves of the
door fold. 1 Kings vi. 34.
Fold, n. [From Fold, v. In sense 2 AS. -feald, akin to fealdan to
fold.] 1. A doubling,esp. of any flexible substance; a part laid over
on another part; a plait; a plication.
Mummies . . . shrouded in a number of folds of linen.
Bacon.
Folds are most common in the rocks of mountainous regions.
J. D. Dana.
2. Times or repetitions; -- used with numerals, chiefly in composition,
to denote multiplication or increase in a geometrical ratio, the
doubling, tripling, etc., of anything; as, fourfold, four times,
increased in a quadruple ratio, multiplied by four.
3. That which is folded together, or which infolds or envelops;
embrace.
Shall from your neck unloose his amorous fold.
Shak.
Fold net, a kind of net used in catching birds.
Fold, n. [OE. fald, fold, AS. fald, falod.] 1. An inclosure for sheep;
a sheep pen.
Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold.
Milton.
2. A flock of sheep; figuratively, the Church or a church; as, Christ's
fold.
There shall be one fold and one shepherd.
John x. 16.
The very whitest lamb in all my fold.
Tennyson.