manifolds
plural of manifold
Source: Wiktionary
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
2 May 2025
(noun) excavation consisting of a vertical or sloping passageway for finding or mining ore or for ventilating a mine
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
