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Counterstock :: Counterstock (n.) See Counterfoil.

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

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

Multifoil :: Multifoil (a.) Having more than five divisions or foils.

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

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

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

Sainfoin :: Sainfoin (n.) A kind of tick trefoil (Desmodium Canadense).

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

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

Water Milfoil :: Water milfoil () Any plant of the genus Myriophyllum, aquatic herbs with whorled leaves, the submersed ones pinnately parted into capillary divisions..

Five-finger :: Five-finger (n.) See Cinquefoil.

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

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

Trifoly :: Trifoly (n.) Sweet trefoil.

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

Multifoil :: Multifoil (n.) An ornamental foliation consisting of more than five divisions or foils.

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

Baffle :: Baffle (v. t.) To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.

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

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