Definition of foil

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

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Fencer :: Fencer (n.) One who fences; one who teaches or practices the art of fencing with sword or foil.
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..
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..
Quicksilvering :: Quicksilvering (n.) The mercury and foil on the back of a looking-glass.
Foiling :: Foiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Foi.
Quadrifoil :: Quadrifoil (a.) Alt. of Quadrifoliat.
Foil :: Foil (n.) A leaf or very thin sheet of metal; as, brass foil; tin foil; gold foil..
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..
Milfoil :: Milfoil (n.) A common composite herb (Achillea Millefolium) with white flowers and finely dissected leaves; yarrow.
Foil :: Foil (n.) The track or trail of an animal.
Quicksilvered :: Quicksilvered (a.) Overlaid with quicksilver, or with an amalgam of quicksilver and tinfoil..
Quarterfoil :: Quarterfoil (n.) An ornamental foliation having four lobes, 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..
Foil :: Foil (n.) Anything that serves by contrast of color or quality to adorn or set off another thing to advantage.
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
Lametta :: Lametta (n.) Foil or wire made of gold, silver, or brass..
Five-leaf :: Five-leaf (n.) Cinquefoil; five-finger.
Blunt :: Blunt (n.) A fencer's foil.
Cinquefoil :: Cinquefoil (n.) The name of several different species of the genus Potentilla; -- also called five-finger, because of the resemblance of its leaves to the fingers of the hand..
Foil :: 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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