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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..

Foil :: Foil (n.) A leaf or very thin sheet of metal; as, brass foil; tin foil; gold foil..

Background :: Background (n.) Anything behind, serving as a foil; as, the statue had a background of red hangings..

Trefoil :: Trefoil (n.) A charge representing the clover leaf.

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

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

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..

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..

Trifoly :: Trifoly (n.) Sweet trefoil.

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..

Stock :: Stock (n.) The part of a tally formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness. See Counterfoil..

Polyfoil :: Polyfoil (n.) Same as Multifoil.

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

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

Fencer :: Fencer (n.) One who fences; one who teaches or practices the art of fencing with sword or foil.

Water Feather-foil :: Water feather-foil () The water violet (Hottonia palustris); also, the less showy American plant H. inflata..

Foinery :: Foinery (n.) Thrusting with the foil; fencing with the point, as distinguished from broadsword play..

Tin :: Tin (v. t.) To cover with tin or tinned iron, or to overlay with tin foil..

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

Foiling :: Foiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Foi.

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