Definition of foil

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

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Foil :: Foil (v. t.) To defile; to soil.
Foil :: Foil (n.) The track or trail of an animal.
Sainfoin :: Sainfoin (n.) A kind of tick trefoil (Desmodium Canadense).
Trefoil :: Trefoil (n.) A charge representing the clover leaf.
Arquebusade :: Arquebusade (n.) A distilled water from a variety of aromatic plants, as rosemary, millefoil, etc.; -- originally used as a vulnerary in gunshot wounds..
Trifoly :: Trifoly (n.) Sweet trefoil.
Perdifoil :: Perdifoil (n.) A deciduous plant; -- opposed to evergreen.
Tin :: Tin (v. t.) To cover with tin or tinned iron, or to overlay with tin foil..
Foliature :: Foliature (n.) The state of being beaten into foil.
Cinquefoil :: Cinquefoil (n.) An ornamental foliation having five points or cups, used in windows, panels, etc..
Euchre :: Euchre (v. t.) To defeat or foil thoroughly in any scheme.
Balk :: Balk (v. t.) To disappoint; to frustrate; to foil; to baffle; to /hwart; as, to balk expectation..
Foinery :: Foinery (n.) Thrusting with the foil; fencing with the point, as distinguished from broadsword play..
Solubility :: Solubility (n.) The tendency to separate readily into parts by spurious articulations, as the pods of tick trefoil..
Water Feather-foil :: Water feather-foil () The water violet (Hottonia palustris); also, the less showy American plant H. inflata..
Foil :: Foil (n.) A leaf or very thin sheet of metal; as, brass foil; tin foil; gold foil..
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..
Buck Bean :: Buck bean () A plant (Menyanthes trifoliata) which grows in moist and boggy places, having racemes of white or reddish flowers and intensely bitter leaves, sometimes used in medicine; marsh trefoil; -- called also bog bean..
Quadrifoil :: Quadrifoil (a.) Alt. of Quadrifoliat.
Foliation :: Foliation (n.) The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses..
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