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

Leyden Phial :: Leyden phial () A glass jar or bottle used to accumulate electricity. It is coated with tin foil, within and without, nearly to its top, and is surmounted by a brass knob which communicates with the inner coating, for the purpose of charging it with electricity. It is so named from having been invented in Leyden, Holland..

Foiling :: Foiling (n.) The track of game (as deer) in the grass.

Foiling :: Foiling (n.) A foil.

Foiler :: Foiler (n.) One who foils or frustrates.

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

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

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

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

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

Foil :: Foil (n.) A thin coat of tin, with quicksilver, laid on the back of a looking-glass, to cause reflection..

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

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

Blunt :: Blunt (n.) A fencer's foil.

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

Septfoil :: Septfoil (n.) A European herb, the tormentil. See Tormentil..

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

Arquebusade :: Arquebusade (n.) A distilled water from a variety of aromatic plants, as rosemary, millefoil, etc.; -- originally used as a vulnerary in gunshot wounds..

Counterstock :: Counterstock (n.) See Counterfoil.

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..

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