ppl. a. [f. FOLD v. + -ED1.] In various senses of the vb.; bent, closed, coiled, doubled, twisted.

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1570.  Satir. Poems Reform., xxii. 59.

        Or blind Hary with hir to sport and play,
With fauldit neif, and tak her mony gird.

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1629.  Milton, On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity, 170.

          Not half so far casts his usurped sway,
And wrath to see his Kingdom fail,
Swindges the scaly Horrour of his foulded tail.

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1646.  Buck, Rich. III., II. 58. Otherwise he might sit downe with folded hands, for upon this marriage insisted the maine hope and consequence of his Fortune.

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1784.  Cowper, Task, I. 331.

        The folded gates would bar my progress now,
But that the Lord of this inclosed demesne,
Communicative of the good he owns,
Admits me to a share.

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1801.  Southey, Thalaba, IV. v.

                    With folded arms,
  Thinking of other days, he sate, till thought
Had left him.

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1850.  Mrs. Browning, Poems, II. 150. Folded eyes see brighter colours than the open ever do.

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1855.  Browning, Any Wife, viii.

        I seem to see! We meet and part; ’t is brief;
The book I opened keeps a folded leaf.

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  fig.  1593.  A. Bacon, in Bacon’s Wks. (1862), VIII. 245. I do not understand his enigmatical folded writing.

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1649.  Jer. Taylor, Gt. Exemp., II. § 12. 56. The symbol of an implicit and folded duty.

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1707.  Tate, in Southey, Comm.-pl. Bk., Ser. II. (1849), 337.

                  Untie your folded thoughts,
And let them dangle loose as a bride’s hair.

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1832.  Tennyson, Dr. Fair Wom., 263.

        With that sharp sound the white dawn’s creeping beams,
    Stol’n to my brian, dissolved the mystery
Of folded sleep.

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  b.  Of a mantle: Arranged in folds.

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1831.  Carlyle, Sart. Res., I. v. Whether he flow gracefully out in folded mantles, based on light sandals.

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  c.  Folded angle-joint (see quot.); † Folded table, ? a table with flaps.

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1504.  Bury Wills (Camden), 101. The hall tabyll and trystells in the hall, parlurrs, and chamburs, except falt tabells. Ibid. (1554), 146. A goblet wt the cover parcell gylt, and a folted table wt iron.

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1874.  Knight, Dict. Mech., I. 105/1. h is a riveted joint, one plate being bent to lap upon the other. This joint is called the folded angle.

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  Hence Foldedly adv., in a folded manner.

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1613.  Chapman, Masks Inns of Court, Plays, 1873, III. 94. A pentacle of siluered stuffe about her shoulders, hanging foldedly downe, both before and behind.

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