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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..

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

Foiling :: Foiling (n.) A foil.

Counterstock :: Counterstock (n.) See Counterfoil.

Balk :: Balk (v. t.) To disappoint; to frustrate; to foil; to baffle; to /hwart; as, to balk expectation..

Water Feather-foil :: Water feather-foil () The water violet (Hottonia palustris); also, the less showy American plant H. inflata..

Trefoiled :: Trefoiled (a.) Same as Trefle.

Tin :: Tin (n.) An elementary substance found as an oxide in the mineral cassiterite, and reduced as a soft white crystalline metal, malleable at ordinary temperatures, but brittle when heated. It is not easily oxidized in the air, and is used chiefly to coat iron to protect it from rusting, in the form of tin foil with mercury to form the reflective surface of mirrors, and in solder, bronze, speculum metal, and other alloys. Its compounds are designated as stannous, or stannic. Symbol Sn (Stannum). At

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

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

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

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

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

Foliature :: Foliature (n.) The state of being beaten into foil.

Quadrifoil :: Quadrifoil (a.) Alt. of Quadrifoliat.

Quarterfoil :: Quarterfoil (n.) An ornamental foliation having four lobes, or foils..

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

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..

Solubility :: Solubility (n.) The tendency to separate readily into parts by spurious articulations, as the pods of tick trefoil..

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

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