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Quicksilvering :: Quicksilvering (n.) The mercury and foil on the back of a looking-glass.

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

Water Trefoil :: Water trefoil () The buck bean.

Septfoil :: Septfoil (n.) A typical figure, consisting of seven equal segments of a circle, used to denote the gifts of the Holy Chost, the seven sacraments as recognized by the Roman Catholic Church, etc..

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

Tinning :: Tinning (n.) The act, art, or process of covering or coating anything with melted tin, or with tin foil, as kitchen utensils, locks, and the like..

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

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..

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..

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

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..

Arquebusade :: Arquebusade (n.) A distilled water from a variety of aromatic plants, as rosemary, millefoil, etc.; -- originally used as a vulnerary in gunshot wounds..

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

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..

Five-finger :: Five-finger (n.) See Cinquefoil.

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

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

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

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 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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