Manifold /(?)/

Man·i·fold

Manifold

a.
  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.

Phrases & Compounds
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; writing several copies of a document at once by use of carbon paper or the like.

Manifold

n.
  1. A copy of a writing made by the manifold process.
  2. A cylindrical pipe fitting, having a number of lateral outlets, for connecting one pipe with several others; as, the exhaust manifold of an automobile engine. (Mech.)
  3. The third stomach of a ruminant animal. [Local, U.S.]

Manifold

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Manifolded; p. pr. & vb. n. Manifolding

  1. To take copies of by the process of manifold writing; as, to manifold a letter.