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

Tin :: Tin (v. t.) To cover with tin or tinned iron, or to overlay with tin foil..

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

Quatrefoil :: Quatrefoil (n.) Same as Quarterfoil.

Foinery :: Foinery (n.) Thrusting with the foil; fencing with the point, as distinguished from broadsword play..

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

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

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

Waster :: Waster (v. t.) A kind of cudgel; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a foil..

Tinsel :: Tinsel (n.) A shining material used for ornamental purposes; especially, a very thin, gauzelike cloth with much gold or silver woven into it; also, very thin metal overlaid with a thin coating of gold or silver, brass foil, or the like..

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

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

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

Quicksilvered :: Quicksilvered (a.) Overlaid with quicksilver, or with an amalgam of quicksilver and tinfoil..

Foliation :: Foliation (n.) The enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the ornaments. See Tracery..

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..

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..

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

Coat :: Coat (v. t.) To cover with a layer of any substance; as, to coat a jar with tin foil; to coat a ceiling..

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

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