The Collaborative International Dictionary
Infold \In*fold"\ (?n-f?ld"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Infolded; p. pr. & vb. n. Infolding.] [Pref. in- in + fold.] [Written also enfold.]
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To wrap up or cover with folds; to envelop; to inwrap; to inclose; to involve.
Gilded tombs do worms infold.
--Shak.Infold his limbs in bands.
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To clasp with the arms; to embrace.
Noble Banquo, . . . let me infold thee, And hold thee to my heart.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To fold inwards. 2 (context transitive English) To wrap up or inwrap; involve; inclose; enfold or envelop. 3 (context transitive English) To clasp with the arms; embrace.
Usage examples of "infold".
Some of the points on the infolded margins likewise contained brownish granular matter.
The points on the infolded margins are like those in the Australian form.
The transverse rows of hairs are so numerous that they seem superfluous merely for the sake of preventing the escape of prey, and as they are thin and delicate, they probably serve as additional absorbents, in the same manner as the flexible bristles on the infolded margins of the leaves of Aldrovanda.
Many of the points on the infolded rims also had their lining of protoplasm similarly shrunk, and contained spherical granules of hyaline matter.
A narrow rim of the broad flat exterior part of each lobe is turned inwards, so that, when the lobes are closed, the exterior surfaces of the infolded portions come into contact.
As the rim is infolded, these points are directed towards the midrib, and they appear at first as if they were adapted to prevent the escape of prey.
Nevertheless, the infolded rims, together with the points, must somewhat interfere with the retrograde movement of any small creature, as soon as the lobes begin to close.
Some of the points on the infolded margins of the lobes were similarly affected.
We can thus understand the meaning of the infolded margins of the lobes furnished with delicate points directed inwards, and of the broad, flat, outer portions, bearing quadrifid processes.
Two rather large, oblong, rectangular pieces of roast meat were placed with their ends touching the infolded edge, and .
We here clearly see that the valve and collar are infolded prolongations of the walls of the bladder.
The circular hollow between the infolded apex and infolded prominence apparently contracts into the narrow orifice, wherein the valve and collar will be developed.
Flying around studying each great palimpsest of facets, he scried two very strong impulses in himself, distinct and mutually exclusive, yet infolded, like the green and the white.
She felt that there, over the strange blind, terrible wall of rocky snow, there in the navel of the mystic world, among the final cluster of peaks, there, in the infolded navel of it all, was her consummation.
If she could but come there, alone, and pass into the infolded navel of eternal snow and of uprising, immortal peaks of snow and rock, she would be a oneness with all, she would be herself the eternal, infinite silence, the sleeping, timeless, frozen centre of the All.