Bean Trefoil :: Bean trefoil () A leguminous shrub of southern Europe, with trifoliate leaves (Anagyris foetida)..

Cinquefoil :: Cinquefoil (n.) The name of several different species of the genus Potentilla; -- also called five-finger, because of the resemblance of its leaves to the fingers of the hand..

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

Counterfoil :: Counterfoil (n.) That part of a tally, formerly in the exchequer, which was kept by an officer in that court, the other, called the stock, being delivered to the person who had lent the king money on the account; -- called also counterstock..

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..

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

Foible :: Foible (a.) Weak; feeble.

Foible :: Foible (n.) A moral weakness; a failing; a weak point; a frailty.

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

Foil :: Foil (v. t.) To tread under foot; to trample.

Foil :: Foil (v. t.) To render (an effort or attempt) vain or nugatory; to baffle; to outwit; to balk; to frustrate; to defeat.

Foil :: Foil (v. t.) To blunt; to dull; to spoil; as, to foil the scent in chase..

Foil :: Foil (v. t.) To defile; to soil.

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

Foil :: Foil (n.) A blunt weapon used in fencing, resembling a smallsword in the main, but usually lighter and having a button at the point..

Foil :: Foil (n.) The track or trail of an animal.

Foil :: Foil (n.) A leaf or very thin sheet of metal; as, brass foil; tin foil; gold foil..

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

Foiler :: Foiler (n.) One who foils or frustrates.

Foiling :: Foiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Foi.

Foiling :: Foiling (n.) A foil.

Foiling :: Foiling (n.) The track of game (as deer) in the grass.

Foin :: Foin (n.) The beech marten (Mustela foina). See Marten.

Foin :: Foin (n.) A kind of fur, black at the top on a whitish ground, taken from the ferret or weasel of the same name..

Foin :: Foin (v. i.) To thrust with a sword or spear; to lunge.

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