Definition of foil

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Foil (n.) Anything that serves by contrast of color or quality to adorn or set off another thing to advantage.

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Water Milfoil :: Water milfoil () Any plant of the genus Myriophyllum, aquatic herbs with whorled leaves, the submersed ones pinnately parted into capillary divisions..
Tain :: Tain (n.) Thin tin plate; also, tin foil for mirrors..
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..
Foliation :: Foliation (n.) The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina..
Quicksilvered :: Quicksilvered (a.) Overlaid with quicksilver, or with an amalgam of quicksilver and tinfoil..
Polyfoil :: Polyfoil (n.) Same as Multifoil.
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..
Trefoil :: Trefoil (n.) An ornamental foliation consisting of three divisions, or foils..
Trefle :: Trefle (a.) Having a three-lobed extremity or extremities, as a cross; also, more rarely, ornamented with trefoils projecting from the edges, as a bearing..
Bean Trefoil :: Bean trefoil () A leguminous shrub of southern Europe, with trifoliate leaves (Anagyris foetida)..
Baffle :: Baffle (v. t.) To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.
Quadrifoil :: Quadrifoil (a.) Alt. of Quadrifoliat.
Folier :: Folier (n.) Goldsmith's foil.
Foil :: Foil (n.) Failure of success when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.
Trefoil :: Trefoil (n.) A charge representing the clover leaf.
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..
Foiling :: Foiling (n.) A foil.
Euchre :: Euchre (v. t.) To defeat or foil thoroughly in any scheme.
Quicksilvering :: Quicksilvering (n.) The mercury and foil on the back of a looking-glass.
Foliature :: Foliature (n.) The state of being beaten into foil.
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