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Tin :: Tin (n.) An elementary substance found as an oxide in the mineral cassiterite, and reduced as a soft white crystalline metal, malleable at ordinary temperatures, but brittle when heated. It is not easily oxidized in the air, and is used chiefly to coat iron to protect it from rusting, in the form of tin foil with mercury to form the reflective surface of mirrors, and in solder, bronze, speculum metal, and other alloys. Its compounds are designated as stannous, or stannic. Symbol Sn (Stannum). At

Foinery :: Foinery (n.) Thrusting with the foil; fencing with the point, as distinguished from broadsword play..

Foil :: Foil (v. t.) To defile; to soil.

Foliation :: Foliation (n.) The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina..

Trefoiled :: Trefoiled (a.) Same as Trefle.

Polyfoil :: Polyfoil (n.) Same as Multifoil.

Foil :: Foil (v. t.) To tread under foot; to trample.

Floret :: Floret (n.) A foil; a blunt sword used in fencing.

Foliature :: Foliature (n.) The state of being beaten into foil.

Tin :: Tin (v. t.) To cover with tin or tinned iron, or to overlay with tin foil..

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

Water Feather-foil :: Water feather-foil () The water violet (Hottonia palustris); also, the less showy American plant H. inflata..

Coat :: Coat (v. t.) To cover with a layer of any substance; as, to coat a jar with tin foil; to coat a ceiling..

Lametta :: Lametta (n.) Foil or wire made of gold, silver, or brass..

Yarrow :: Yarrow (n.) An American and European composite plant (Achillea Millefolium) with very finely dissected leaves and small white corymbed flowers. It has a strong, and somewhat aromatic, odor and taste, and is sometimes used in making beer, or is dried for smoking. Called also milfoil, and nosebleed..

Stock :: Stock (n.) The part of a tally formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness. See Counterfoil..

Feather-foil :: Feather-foil (n.) An aquatic plant (Hottonia palustris), having finely divided leaves..

Trefoil :: Trefoil (n.) An ornamental foliation consisting of three divisions, or foils..

Trefle :: Trefle (a.) Having a three-lobed extremity or extremities, as a cross; also, more rarely, ornamented with trefoils projecting from the edges, as a bearing..

Foible :: Foible (n.) The half of a sword blade or foil blade nearest the point; -- opposed to forte.

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