folier 
paper; also, foil of precious stones. Riclxirrt- 
on. 
Concerning the preparing these folicrs, it is to he ob- 
served how and out of what substance they are prepared. 
Hist. Royal Society, II. 4H9. 
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foliolate (fo'li-o-lat), a. [< NL. foHnlntim, < 
ft>liolum,a, leaflet: see foliole. ] In lot., of or 
pertaining to, or consisting of, leaflets: used 
in composition : as, bifoliolatc, having two leaf- 
lets ; trifoliolate, having three leaflets. 
linn, dim. of ~L. folium, a leaf: seo folio, foil 1 .} 
1. In but., a leaflet; a separate part of a com- 
pound or divided leaf, or a division of a thallus ; 
a squamule. 2. In zoo'l., some foliate part or 
organ of small size. 
The margins of the body and the limbs are furnished 
with a series of flat transparent leaflets. . . . Similar 
folioles also arise from the basal joint of the antenna). 
Stand. Nat. Hist., II. 221. 
folioliferous (fo"li-o-lif 'e-rus), a. [< NL./oKo- 
linn, foliole, + L./eVre = E. tear 1 .] In entiim., 
bearing leaf-like processes or organs : applied 
especially to the abdomen when it is termi- 
nated by two thin leaf-like appendages, as in 
certain dragon-flies. 
foliomort (fo'li-o-m6rt), a. [An accom. form 
offeuillcmortc, q. v.] Same as feuillemorte. 
foliose (fo'li-6s), a. [< L. foliosus, leafy, full 
of leaves, (.folium, leaf : see foil 1 ."] Bearing or 
covered with leaflets or with small leaf-like 
appendages. 
foliosity (fo-li-os'i-ti), n. [(foliose (in sense 2 
with humorous allusion to folio) + -ity.~\ 1. 
The state of being foliose. 2. The ponderous- 
ness or bulk of a folio ; voluminousness; copi- 
ousness; diffuseuess. 
It is exactly because he is not tedious, because he does 
not shoot into German foliosity, that Schlosser finds him 
" intolerable." 
IGLD, ttyvnv AIV, unviUK tuico itruucLO. 
foliicolous (fo-li-ik'o-lus), a. [< L. folium, a foliole (to'li-ol), n. [= F. foliole, < NL. folio- 
leaf, + eolere, dwell.] Growing upon leaves; 
parasitic on leaves, as many fungi, or merely 
attached, as some Jjcpaticcv and lichens. 
Some fttliicoioicti species (e. g., Platygramma phyllo- 
sema). Jincyc. Brit., XIV. 550. 
foliiferous (fo-li-if'e-rus), a. [< L. folium, a 
leaf, + ferre = E. bear 1 .'] Bearing leaves or 
leaf-like appendages or expansions.--Folilfer- 
ous staff, a baton or pastoral staff decorated with buds or 
leaves at regular intervals, generally on opposite sides 
alternately: appearing in decorative work of the middle 
IILVS us an attribute of certain saints. 
foliiform (fo'li-i-form), a. [< L. folium, a leaf, 
+ forma, shape.] Shaped like a leaf. 
foliiparous (fo-li-ip'a-rus), a. [< L. folium, a 
leaf, + jmrere, produce.] In tot., producing 
leaves only, as leaf -buds. Maunder. 
folilyt, rfc. [ME., also folili, foliliehe ; < foly, 
follichc, foolish: see folly, a.] Foolishly. 
Faire fader, bi mi feith/oMi ge wrougten, 
To wilne after wedlok that wold nougt a-sente. 
WOOam of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 4596. 
Yef ye do as folily as your syster dede, ye sholde be 
deed therfore. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 7. 
Folily we have doon. Wyclif, Num. xii. 11 (Oxf.). 
I have my body folily dispended, 
Blessed be God that it schal been amended. 
Chaucer, Merchant's Tale, 1. 159. 
folio (fo'lio), . and a. [< L. folio, in the phrase 
(NL.) in folio, i. e., in (one) sheet, a book being 
in folio when the two opposite leaves form or 
are equal to one sheet (so quarto, octavo, etc., 
for in quarto, etc.); folio, abl. ofjfolium, a 
leaf, a sheet of paper: see. /oi/ 1 .] I. n. 1. A 
sheet of paper folded once, usually through the 
shorter diameter, so as to consist of two equal 
leaves. 2. A book or other publication, or a 
blank book, etc., consisting of sheets or of a 
single sheet folded once. 
This/oZio of four pages, happy work ! 
Cowper, Task, iv. 50. 
3. The size of such a book, etc.: as, an edition 
of a work in folio. Abbreviated fol. : as, 3 vols. 
fol. 4. One of several sizes of paper adapted 
for folding once into well-proportioned leaves, 
whether intended for such use or not, distin- 
guished by specific names. The nntrimmed leaf of 
a pot folio is about 7i x 12^ inches ; foolscap folio, about 8 
x 12J; fat-cap folio, 8} x 14; crown folio or post folio, 9J 
x 15; demy folio, 10J x 16; medium folio, 12 x 19 ; royal 
folio, 12J x 20 ; snperroyal folio, 14 x 22 ; imperial folio, 16 
X 22 ; elephant folio, 14 x 23 ; atlas folio, 16* x 26 ; colum- 
liier folio, IJi X 24 ; double-elephant folio, "20 x 27 ; anti- 
nian folio, 26J X 31. 
n bookkeeping, a page of an account-book, 
or both the right- and left-hand pages num- 
bered with the same figure. 6. In printing, 
the number of a page, inserted at top or bot- 
tom. 7. In law, a certain number of words 
taken as a basis for computing the length of a 
document. In the United States, generally, a folio is 
one hundred words, each figure being counted as a word ; 
in England, in conveyancing, etc., seventy-two words, or 
in parliamentary and probate proceedings ninety. 
8. A wrapper or case for loose papers, sheet 
music, engravings, etc. : as, a music-foHo. 
Broad folio. See broad. In folio, (a) In (one) sheet ; 
in sheets folded but once ; in the form of a folio. 
The World's a Book in Folio, printed all with God's 
great Works in letters Oapitall. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 1. 
Devise, wit ; write, pen ; for I am for whole volumes in 
folio. Shak.,L. L. L., i. 2. 
(6t) In abundance ; in great style (If ares) ; but, perhaps, 
in separate leaves ; in flakes or fragments. 
The flint, the stake, the stone in folio flew, 
Anger makes all things weapons when 'tis heat. 
Fanshaw, tr. of Camoens's Lusiad, i. 91. 
In full folio, in full dress. [Colloq.] 
II. a. Pertaining to or having the form of a 
folio; folded or adapted for folding once ; con- 
sisting of leaves formed by one folding: as, a 
sheet or book of folio size ; a, folio sheet, page, 
newspaper, or book. 
The usual price of the brothers Wiericx for engraving a 
plate of folio size was thirty florins. 
The Century, XXXVI. 241. 
Folio post, a size of writing-paper, generally 17 x 22 
Inches. 
folio (fo'lio), v.t. [<folio,n.'\ 1. In printing, to 
number the pages of, as a book or periodical ; 
page; paginate. 2. In law-copying, to mark 
with its proper figure the end of every folio 
in; in lax-printing, to mark with its proper fig- 
ure the space that should be occupied by a folio 
in. See folio, n., 1, 
folkloristic 
rail against other folks, because other folks 
have what some/a/to would be glad of. 
Fieldiny, Joseph Andrews. 
Our ancestors are very good kind ot folks ; but they are 
the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquain- 
tance with. ,s'/iri-iW<t, The Kivals, iv. 1. 
() The people as an aggregate ; the common people : in 
this use without a plural form. 
Thou shalt judge the .AM righteously. 
Ps. Ixvii. 4 (Book of Common Prayer), 
(rf) An aggregate or corporate body of persons ; a people ; 
a nation : as singular folk, as plural folks (but rare in the 
plural). 
The/ofc of Denemark. Robert of Gloucester, p. 3. 
The conies are but a feeble folk. Prov. xxx. 26. 
Some of the wordes the weren spoken bitwene two 
folkes, that on was of lerusalem, and that other of Babi- 
lonie. Old KIUJ. Homilies (ed. Morris), II. 61. 
But, if we [English-speaking people] do not belong to 
the same nation, I do hold that we belong to the same 
people : or rather, to use a word of our own tongue, to the 
same folk. By that I mean that we come of the same 
stock, that we speak the same tongue, that we have a 
long common history and a crowd of common memories. 
E. A. Freeman, Amer. Lects., p. 15. 
(e) pi. Friends : as, we are not folks now. [Prov. Eng.] 
Good folk. See good. One's folks, or the folks, one's 
people; one's family or relatives: as, he has gone to see 
ml folks ; how are the folks at home? [Colloq.] 
Folkething (fol'ke-ting), n. [Dan., <folk, folk 
(= G. talk), + thing, a meeting (of lawmakers) : 
see Landsthing.~] The lower house of the Dan- 
ish parliament or Kigsdag. It consists of 102 mem- 
bers elected for three years by all male citizens 30 years 
of age and over. All matters regarding the budget anil 
taxation must first be introduced into the Folkething and 
discussed by it before being taken up by the Landsthing 
or upper house. The Folkething may be dissolved by the 
, lc- king as often as he pleases. 
Z> Qw'ncey, Schlosser's Lit. Hist, of 18th Cent, folk-free (fok'fre), a. Free Folk-free and 
foliott (fo'li-ot), n. [< OF. follet, folet, or, in ftfe a term applied to one who is a law ' ul freema "' 
full, esprit folet or follet, a hobgoblin, Robin folk-frith (fok'frith), n. In Anglo-Saxon law, 
the rightful peace of the whole people. Men 
having a controversy with each other were not allowed 
to settle it by violence without first obtaining leave of 
the people on showing sufficient cause. To fight without 
leave was a breach of the folk-frith. 
(> ME. folett), foolish, stupid, dim. of fol, adj. 
foolish, n. a fool, a madcap: see fool 1 ."] A 
goblin : associated in popular mythology with 
Puck or Robin Goodfellow. 
Terrestrial devils are . . . wood-nymphs, foliotg, fairies, 
robin-goodfellows, &c. Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 47. as a whole. J. A. Green, Conq. of Eng., p. 22'. 
folious (fo'li-us), a. [= OF. foillm, foillios, < folkland (fok'land), n. [A mod. form, repr. AS. 
The conquerors came as "folks"; and the very exis- 
tence of a folk implied a "folk-frith" of the community 
i. foliosus, leafy: see foliose.'] 1. Leafy; thin; 
unsubstantial. 2. In bot., foliose. 
folium (fo'li-um), n. ; pi. folia, (-a). [L., a leaf: 
see/oj/l.] 1. A leaf; a lamina; a lamella; a 
layer. 
The minerals retain their positions in folia ranging in 
the usual direction. Darwin, Geol. Observations, ii. 427. 
2. In geom., a loop, being a part of a curve 
terminated at 
both ends by 
the same node. 
Folium cacu- 
ininis, in anat., 
a lamella of the 
vermis superior 
of the cerebel- 
lum, connecting 
the lobi semilu- 
nares superiores. 
Folium of 
Descartes, in 
geom., a plane 
Folium of Descartes, with its asymptote. 
The equation is (4 y~l <.y I }2 =. jxty. 
foldand, < folc, the people, + land, land. ] In old 
>ig. law, the land of the folk or people, as dis- 
tinguished from bookland, which was held by 
charter or deed. It comprised the whole area that 
was not assigned to individuals or communities at the 
original allotment, and that was not subsequently divided 
into estates of bookland. (Stubbs, Const. Hist., 36.) It 
corresponded to the agcr publics of the Romans. 
The folkland, the common land of the community or of 
the nation, out of which the ancient allodial possessions 
were carved. E. A. Freeman, Norman Conquest, I. 63. 
Portions of the folk-land might be, and frequently were, 
turned into private property by grant from the sovereign 
power ; or, without altering the ultimate public property 
in the land, the possession and enjoyment of it might be, 
and constantly were, let out to individuals. 
E. Pollock, Land Laws, p. 20. 
folk-lore (fok'lor), n. [</<) + lore; first sug- 
gested by Mr. Thorns in 1846 ("Athena-urn," 
1846, p. 862), in imitation of G. compounds like 
rolkslied, 'folk-song,' volksepos, popular epic, 
etc.] The lore of the common people ; the tradi- 
cubic curve hav- * * / 
ing a crunode, and one real inflexion, which lies at infinity, tional beliefs and customs of the people, espe- 
OFries 
MHG 
people, people collectively, the people, a "peo- 
ple or nation, = lAth.pulkas, a crowd, = OBulg. 
pluku = Russ. polku, an army. The OF. folc, 
Mr. Gomme offers as a definition of the science of folk- 
ore the following: it is " the comparison and identiflca- 
foulc, fulc, fouc, fouk, etc., people, multitude, 
crowd, troop, is of G. origin. Connection with 
flock 1 (by transposition) is improbable; with 
L. mdgus, put of the question. The AS. pi. was 
the same in form as the sing, (folc), and meant 
only 'peoples, nations'; so ME., where also 
pi. folkes, peoples, occurs ; but the pi. folks, 
meaning persons, appears in late ME.] People, 
Among the proofs of his [William John Thoms's] hap- 
piness of hitting on names may be cited his . . . inven- 
tion of the void folk-lore. N. and Q., 6th ser., XII. 141. 
Mr. Gomme offers as a def 
lo-, 
tion of the survivals, archaic beliefs, customs, and tradi- 
tions in modern ages." Science, IX. 479. 
(fok'16r-ik), a. [< folk-lore + -tc.] 
Of or pertaining to folk-lore. [Recent.] 
Folk-lorist and folk-loric are not pleasant forms, but 
students have been driven to use both. 
Nature, XXXIV. 38. 
SpTdncany-^lf 1 ^ folklorist (fok'lor-ist), n. [< folk-lore + -.] 
[Recent.] 
lore. 
Swa mykel folk com never togyder . . . 
Als sal be sene byfor Crist than. 
Hampole, Prick of Conscience, 1. 6013. 
Edi [blessed] be thu, hevene quene, 
Folkes frovre [comforter] and angles blis. 
Old Bmj. Homilies (ed. Morris), II. 255. 
He laid his hands upon a few sick folk and healed them. . 
Mark vi. 5. folkloristic (fok-lo-ris'tik), a. 
So when they came to the door, they went in, not knock- 
ing ; tor folks use not to knock at the door of an inn. 
Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress, p. 302. 
The question whether the personality of the giant Gar- 
gantua is an emanation of the fertile genius of Rabelais, 
or whether that writer grafted his own immortal ideas 
on to an ancient Celtic stock, has for some time past been 
a matter of friendly dispute amongst French/o-(ori*(s. 
N. and Q., 7th ser., I. 404. 
[< folk-lore + 
-istic.~\ Pertaining to the field of the folklor- 
ist; of the nature of folk-lore. [Recent.] 
(6) pi. Persons mentally classed together as forming a 
special group : with a qualifying adjective or clause : in 
this use chiefly colloquial and generally in the form folks : 
as, old folks ; young folks; poor folks. 
A recent visit to the Mississaguas of Scugog Island (a 
remnant of a once powerful branch of the great Ojibwa 
confederacy) has enabled me to collect some interesting 
philological and folk-loristic information. 
Science, XII. 132. 
