Definition of foil

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

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Foil :: Foil (n.) A leaf or very thin sheet of metal; as, brass foil; tin foil; gold foil..
Beguile :: Beguile (v. t.) To elude, or evade by craft; to foil..
Milfoil :: Milfoil (n.) A common composite herb (Achillea Millefolium) with white flowers and finely dissected leaves; yarrow.
Water Trefoil :: Water trefoil () The buck bean.
Foiling :: Foiling (n.) The track of game (as deer) in the grass.
Bean Trefoil :: Bean trefoil () A leguminous shrub of southern Europe, with trifoliate leaves (Anagyris foetida)..
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..
Perdifoil :: Perdifoil (n.) A deciduous plant; -- opposed to evergreen.
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.
Foinery :: Foinery (n.) Thrusting with the foil; fencing with the point, as distinguished from broadsword play..
Foil :: Foil (n.) A thin coat of tin, with quicksilver, laid on the back of a looking-glass, to cause reflection..
Folier :: Folier (n.) Goldsmith's foil.
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..
Floret :: Floret (n.) A foil; a blunt sword used in fencing.
Multifoil :: Multifoil (n.) An ornamental foliation consisting of more than five divisions or foils.
Quicksilvering :: Quicksilvering (n.) The mercury and foil on the back of a looking-glass.
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..
Euchre :: Euchre (v. t.) To defeat or foil thoroughly in any scheme.
Baffle :: Baffle (v. t.) To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.
Foliated :: Foliated (a.) Containing, or consisting of, foils; as, a foliated arch..
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