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

Balk :: Balk (v. t.) To disappoint; to frustrate; to foil; to baffle; to /hwart; as, to balk expectation..

Foil :: Foil (n.) The space between the cusps in Gothic architecture; a rounded or leaflike ornament, in windows, niches, etc. A group of foils is called trefoil, quatrefoil, quinquefoil, etc., according to the number of arcs of which it is composed..

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

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

Septfoil :: Septfoil (n.) A European herb, the tormentil. See Tormentil..

Yarrow :: Yarrow (n.) An American and European composite plant (Achillea Millefolium) with very finely dissected leaves and small white corymbed flowers. It has a strong, and somewhat aromatic, odor and taste, and is sometimes used in making beer, or is dried for smoking. Called also milfoil, and nosebleed..

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

Floret :: Floret (n.) A foil; a blunt sword used in fencing.

Cinquefoil :: Cinquefoil (n.) An ornamental foliation having five points or cups, used in windows, panels, etc..

Five-leaf :: Five-leaf (n.) Cinquefoil; five-finger.

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

Bottone :: Bottone (a.) Having a bud or button, or a kind of trefoil, at the end; furnished with knobs or buttons..

Setfoil :: Setfoil (n.) See Septfoil.

Foible :: Foible (n.) The half of a sword blade or foil blade nearest the point; -- opposed to forte.

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.

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

Foliated :: Foliated (a.) Containing, or consisting of, foils; as, a foliated arch..

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

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