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Lametta :: Lametta (n.) Foil or wire made of gold, silver, or brass..

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

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

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.

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..

Platinum :: Platinum (n.) A metallic element, intermediate in value between silver and gold, occurring native or alloyed with other metals, also as the platinum arsenide (sperrylite). It is heavy tin-white metal which is ductile and malleable, but very infusible, and characterized by its resistance to strong chemical reagents. It is used for crucibles, for stills for sulphuric acid, rarely for coin, and in the form of foil and wire for many purposes. Specific gravity 21.5. Atomic weight 194.3. Symbol Pt. Fo

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..

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

Multifoil :: Multifoil (a.) Having more than five divisions or foils.

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

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

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

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..

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..

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..

Fence :: Fence (v. i.) To practice the art of attack and defense with the sword or with the foil, esp. with the smallsword, using the point only..

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

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

Trefoil :: Trefoil (n.) Any plant of the genus Trifolium, which includes the white clover, red clover, etc.; -- less properly, applied also to the nonesuch, or black medic. See Clover, and Medic..

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