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Foliation :: Foliation (n.) The enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the ornaments. See Tracery..

Five-leaf :: Five-leaf (n.) Cinquefoil; five-finger.

Trefle :: Trefle (n.) A species of time; -- so called from its resemblance in form to a trefoil.

Beguile :: Beguile (v. t.) To elude, or evade by craft; to foil..

Tinning :: Tinning (n.) The act, art, or process of covering or coating anything with melted tin, or with tin foil, as kitchen utensils, locks, and the like..

Solubility :: Solubility (n.) The tendency to separate readily into parts by spurious articulations, as the pods of tick trefoil..

Quicksilvered :: Quicksilvered (a.) Overlaid with quicksilver, or with an amalgam of quicksilver and tinfoil..

Foiling :: Foiling (n.) A foil.

Trifoly :: Trifoly (n.) Sweet trefoil.

Water Trefoil :: Water trefoil () The buck bean.

Five-finger :: Five-finger (n.) See Cinquefoil.

Foil :: Foil (n.) Failure of success when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.

Background :: Background (n.) Anything behind, serving as a foil; as, the statue had a background of red hangings..

Setfoil :: Setfoil (n.) See Septfoil.

Club :: Club (n.) Any card of the suit of cards having a figure like the trefoil or clover leaf. (pl.) The suit of cards having such figure.

Foil :: Foil (v. t.) To render (an effort or attempt) vain or nugatory; to baffle; to outwit; to balk; to frustrate; to defeat.

Trefoil :: Trefoil (n.) Any plant of the genus Trifolium, which includes the white clover, red clover, etc.; -- less properly, applied also to the nonesuch, or black medic. See Clover, and Medic..

Septfoil :: Septfoil (n.) An ornamental foliation having seven lobes. Cf. Cinquefoil, Quarterfoil, and Trefoil..

Euchre :: Euchre (v. t.) To defeat or foil thoroughly in any scheme.

Foil :: Foil (v. t.) To blunt; to dull; to spoil; as, to foil the scent in chase..

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