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noun

Folio n. (pl. folios)

A leaf of a book or manuscript.

A sheet of paper once folded.

A book made of sheets of paper each folded once (four pages to the sheet); hence, a book of the largest kind. See Note under Paper.

(Print.) The page number. The even folios are on the left-hand pages and the odd folios on the right-hand.

A page of a book; (Bookkeeping) a page in an account book; sometimes, two opposite pages bearing the same serial number.

(Law) A leaf containing a certain number of words, hence, a certain number of words in a writing, as in England, in law proceedings 72, and in chancery, 90; in New York, 100 words.

Folio post, a flat writing paper, usually 17 by 24 inches.

verb

Folio v. t. To put a serial number on each folio or page of (a book); to page.

adjective

Folio adj. Formed of sheets each folded once, making two leaves, or four pages; as, a folio volume. See Folio, n., 3.

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Etymology of 'Folio'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Folio" Quotes from Famous Books

... possessed in such a way that she was continually blaspheming. She was indicted for blasphemy, fined, and sentenced to stand in the pillory. (For the graphic titles of these contradictory pamphlets and of a folio broadside on the same subject, ...

— A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 • Wallace Notestein

... dark, and a shaded burner hangs by a canvas chair in the kitchen. The wind is booming in gusts, the dogs howl occasionally in the veranda, but the night-watchman and his pipe are at peace with all men. He has discarded a heavy folio for a light romance, while the hours scud by, broken only by the observations. The romance is closed, and he steals to his bunk with a hurricane lamp and finds a bundle of letters. He knows them ...

— The Home of the Blizzard • Douglas Mawson

... large folio packet into my hand, and went below. I opened it: it was a copy of a letter demanding a court-martial upon me, with a long list of the charges preferred by him. I was stupefied, not so much at his asking for a court-martial, but at the conviction of the impossibility of my ...

— Peter Simple and The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 • Frederick Marryat

... little book, Volumes in Folio as he quaintly calls it, is full of dainty verse and delicate fancy. ...

— Reviews • Oscar Wilde

... LAEVIGATUS (Benth. MS.); subglaber glaucescens, foliolis linearibus v. lineari-cuneatis vix acutatis, pedunculis folio longioribus 3—6- floris, calycis subsessilis appresse pubescentis dentibus setaceo- acuminatis tubo suo paullo longioribus, legumine ...

— Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia • Thomas Mitchell

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