MANIFOLDS
Noun
manifolds
plural of manifold
Source: Wiktionary
MANIFOLD
Man"i*fold, a. Etym: [AS. manigfeald. See Many, and Fold.]
1. Various in kind or quality; many in number; numerous; multiplied;
complicated.
O Lord, how manifold are thy works! Ps. civ. 24.
I know your manifold transgressions. Amos v. 12.
2. Exhibited at divers times or in various ways; -- used to qualify
nouns in the singular number. "The manifold wisdom of God." Eph. iii.
10. "The manifold grace of God." 1 Pet. iv. 10. Manifold writing, a
process or method by which several copies, as of a letter, are
simultaneously made, sheets of coloring paper being infolded with
thin sheets of plain paper upon which the marks made by a stylus or a
type-writer are transferred.
Man"i*fold, n.
1. A copy of a writing made by the manifold process.
2. (Mech.)
Definition: A cylindrical pipe fitting, having a number of lateral outlets,
for connecting one pipe with several others.
3. pl.
Definition: The third stomach of a ruminant animal. [Local, U.S.]
Man"i*fold, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Manifolded; p. pr. & vb. n.
Manifolding.]
Definition: To take copies of by the process of manifold writing; as, to
manifold a letter.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition