[UP- 4. Cf. LG. upfolden, G. auffalten.] trans. To fold up, fold together; † to raise, push up. Also Upfolded, † -folden pa. pple.
13[?]. E. E. Allit. P., B. 643. Abraham, al hodlez with armez vp-folden.
a. 1460. Lament. Virgin, in Chester Plays (1847), II. 206. The ston owyr hym he can upfolde … And wente hys wey wherso he wolde.
1600. Fairfax, Tasso, XVI. xiv. The gentlie budding rose … her beauties doth vpfold In their deare leaues.
1822. J. Wilson, Lights & Shadows Sc. Life, 342. The leaves yet upfolded might almost be heard budding in the bower.
1878. E. Jones, Sens. & Event (1879), 200. Come o’er the hills, and pass unto the wold, And all things, as thou passest, in rest upfold.
