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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Club :: Club (n.) Any card of the suit of cards having a figure like the trefoil or clover leaf. (pl.) The suit of cards having such figure.
Foinery :: Foinery (n.) Thrusting with the foil; fencing with the point, as distinguished from broadsword play..
Foil :: Foil (v. t.) To blunt; to dull; to spoil; as, to foil the scent in chase..
Foil :: Foil (n.) Failure of success when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.
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..
Foible :: Foible (n.) The half of a sword blade or foil blade nearest the point; -- opposed to forte.
Foil :: Foil (n.) Anything that serves by contrast of color or quality to adorn or set off another thing to advantage.
Coat :: Coat (v. t.) To cover with a layer of any substance; as, to coat a jar with tin foil; to coat a ceiling..
Bottone :: Bottone (a.) Having a bud or button, or a kind of trefoil, at the end; furnished with knobs or buttons..
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..
Floret :: Floret (n.) A foil; a blunt sword used in fencing.
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..
Foiling :: Foiling (n.) The track of game (as deer) in the grass.
Trefoiled :: Trefoiled (a.) Same as Trefle.
Foilable :: Foilable (a.) Capable of being foiled.
Five-leaf :: Five-leaf (n.) Cinquefoil; five-finger.
Multifoil :: Multifoil (n.) An ornamental foliation consisting of more than five divisions or foils.
Foliation :: Foliation (n.) The enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the ornaments. See Tracery..
Foiler :: Foiler (n.) One who foils or frustrates.
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..
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