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

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

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

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

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

Feather-foil :: Feather-foil (n.) An aquatic plant (Hottonia palustris), having finely divided leaves..

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

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

Tinsel :: Tinsel (n.) A shining material used for ornamental purposes; especially, a very thin, gauzelike cloth with much gold or silver woven into it; also, very thin metal overlaid with a thin coating of gold or silver, brass foil, or the like..

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

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

Perdifoil :: Perdifoil (n.) A deciduous plant; -- opposed to evergreen.

Foliature :: Foliature (n.) The state of being beaten into foil.

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..

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

Setfoil :: Setfoil (n.) See Septfoil.

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

Foiled :: Foiled (imp. & p. p.) of Foi.

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

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

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