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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Folio

Fō'li-o, n.

noun

(fō'li-o, or fōl'yo) (Synop., § 130), n. [Ablative of Lat. folium, leaf.]

Sense 1. A sheet of paper once folded.

Sense 2. A book made of sheets of paper each folded once.

Sense 3. A page in an account-book; sometimes, two opposite pages bearing the same serial number.

Sense 4. (Law.) A leaf containing a certain number of words; hence, a certain number of words in a writing, as in England, in low law proceedings, seventy-two, and in chancery, ninety; in New York, one hundred.

Fō'li-o, a.

adjective

a. Formed of sheets folded so as to make two leaves; of, or equal to, the size of one fold of a sheet of printing paper, when doubled so as to make two leaves; as, a folio volume.