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

Balk :: Balk (v. t.) To disappoint; to frustrate; to foil; to baffle; to /hwart; as, to balk expectation..

Phonograph :: Phonograph (n.) An instrument for the mechanical registration and reproduction of audible sounds, as articulate speech, etc. It consists of a rotating cylinder or disk covered with some material easily indented, as tinfoil, wax, paraffin, etc., above which is a thin plate carrying a stylus. As the plate vibrates under the influence of a sound, the stylus makes minute indentations or undulations in the soft material, and these, when the cylinder or disk is again turned, set the plate in vibration

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

Milfoil :: Milfoil (n.) A common composite herb (Achillea Millefolium) with white flowers and finely dissected leaves; yarrow.

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

Foiled :: Foiled (imp. & p. p.) of Foi.

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.

Waster :: Waster (v. t.) A kind of cudgel; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a foil..

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

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

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

Quadrifoil :: Quadrifoil (a.) Alt. of Quadrifoliat.

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

Point :: Point (n.) A movement executed with the saber or foil; as, tierce point..

Tain :: Tain (n.) Thin tin plate; also, tin foil for mirrors..

Septfoil :: Septfoil (n.) A typical figure, consisting of seven equal segments of a circle, used to denote the gifts of the Holy Chost, the seven sacraments as recognized by the Roman Catholic Church, etc..

Foilable :: Foilable (a.) Capable of being foiled.

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

Setfoil :: Setfoil (n.) See Septfoil.

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