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Multifoil :: Multifoil (n.) An ornamental foliation consisting of more than five divisions or foils.

Trefoil :: Trefoil (n.) A charge representing the clover leaf.

Stock :: Stock (n.) The part of a tally formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness. See Counterfoil..

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

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

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

Trifoly :: Trifoly (n.) Sweet trefoil.

Beguile :: Beguile (v. t.) To elude, or evade by craft; to foil..

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

Septfoil :: Septfoil (n.) An ornamental foliation having seven lobes. Cf. Cinquefoil, Quarterfoil, and Trefoil..

Counterstock :: Counterstock (n.) See Counterfoil.

Trefle :: Trefle (n.) A species of time; -- so called from its resemblance in form to a trefoil.

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

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

Fencer :: Fencer (n.) One who fences; one who teaches or practices the art of fencing with sword or foil.

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..

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

Point :: Point (n.) A movement executed with the saber or foil; as, tierce point..

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..

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