Manifold \Man"i*fold\, a. [AS. manigfeald. See Many, and Fold.]

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. ``The manifold wisdom of God.'' --Eph. iii. 10. ``The manifold grace of God.'' --1 Pet. iv. 10.

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Manifold \Man"i*fold\, n.

1. A copy of a writing made by the manifold process.

2. (Mech.) A cylindrical pipe fitting, having a number of lateral outlets, for connecting one pipe with several others.

3. pl. The third stomach of a ruminant animal. [Local, U.S.]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Manifold \Man"i*fold\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Manifolded; p. pr. & vb. n. Manifolding.]

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

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)