[f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of the verb ENFOLD. Also concr. in various applications: (a.) a wrappage, envelope, † in pl. garments; (b.) a fold, convolution.

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1586.  W. Webbe, Disc. Eng. Poetrie (Arb.), 65. The turning of verses; the infolding of wordes.

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1611.  Shaks., Wint. T., IV. iv. 755. Seest thou not the ayre of the Court, in these enfoldings?

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1873.  Mivart, Elem. Anat., ix. 372. Infoldings of the surface of the organ.

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1880.  A. Wilson, in Gentl. Mag., CCXLVI. 45. The infolding of this blastoderm.

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1882.  Vines, Sachs’ Bot., 533. The cells which contain chlorophyll exhibit the infoldings of the cell-wall.

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1885.  W. K. Parker, Mammalian Descent, iii. 88. The developing embryo and its inner enfoldings.

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