Definition of foil

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

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Counterfoil :: Counterfoil (n.) The part of a writing (as the stub of a bank check) in which are noted the main particulars contained in the corresponding part, which has been issued..
Foliation :: Foliation (n.) The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina..
Trefoiled :: Trefoiled (a.) Same as Trefle.
Foil :: Foil (n.) Failure of success when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.
Floret :: Floret (n.) A foil; a blunt sword used in fencing.
Foible :: Foible (n.) The half of a sword blade or foil blade nearest the point; -- opposed to forte.
Tinning :: Tinning (n.) The act, art, or process of covering or coating anything with melted tin, or with tin foil, as kitchen utensils, locks, and the like..
Foil :: Foil (n.) A thin leaf of sheet copper silvered and burnished, and afterwards coated with transparent colors mixed with isinglass; -- employed by jewelers to give color or brilliancy to pastes and inferior stones..
Foil :: Foil (n.) A leaf or very thin sheet of metal; as, brass foil; tin foil; gold foil..
Perdifoil :: Perdifoil (n.) A deciduous plant; -- opposed to evergreen.
Trifolium :: Trifolium (n.) A genus of leguminous herbs with densely spiked flowers and usually trifoliate leaves; trefoil. There are many species, all of which are called clover. See Clover..
Trefoil :: Trefoil (n.) Any plant of the genus Trifolium, which includes the white clover, red clover, etc.; -- less properly, applied also to the nonesuch, or black medic. See Clover, and Medic..
Foil :: Foil (n.) Anything that serves by contrast of color or quality to adorn or set off another thing to advantage.
Counterstock :: Counterstock (n.) See Counterfoil.
Feather-foil :: Feather-foil (n.) An aquatic plant (Hottonia palustris), having finely divided leaves..
Beguile :: Beguile (v. t.) To elude, or evade by craft; to foil..
Foiled :: Foiled (imp. & p. p.) of Foi.
Foilable :: Foilable (a.) Capable of being foiled.
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
Bottone :: Bottone (a.) Having a bud or button, or a kind of trefoil, at the end; furnished with knobs or buttons..
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