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Foil :: Foil (n.) The space between the cusps in Gothic architecture; a rounded or leaflike ornament, in windows, niches, etc. A group of foils is called trefoil, quatrefoil, quinquefoil, etc., according to the number of arcs of which it is composed..

Foil :: Foil (n.) The track or trail of an animal.

Foil :: Foil (n.) Anything that serves by contrast of color or quality to adorn or set off another thing to advantage.

Quatrefoil :: Quatrefoil (n.) Same as Quarterfoil.

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

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

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

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

Runner :: Runner (n.) A slender trailing branch which takes root at the joints or end and there forms new plants, as in the strawberry and the common cinquefoil..

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

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

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

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

Tinsel :: Tinsel (n.) A shining material used for ornamental purposes; especially, a very thin, gauzelike cloth with much gold or silver woven into it; also, very thin metal overlaid with a thin coating of gold or silver, brass foil, or the like..

Foliation :: Foliation (n.) The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses..

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

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

Bean Trefoil :: Bean trefoil () A leguminous shrub of southern Europe, with trifoliate leaves (Anagyris foetida)..

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..

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

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