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

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

Yarrow :: Yarrow (n.) An American and European composite plant (Achillea Millefolium) with very finely dissected leaves and small white corymbed flowers. It has a strong, and somewhat aromatic, odor and taste, and is sometimes used in making beer, or is dried for smoking. Called also milfoil, and nosebleed..

Counterfoil :: Counterfoil (n.) The part of a writing (as the stub of a bank check) in which are noted the main particulars contained in the corresponding part, which has been issued..

Blunt :: Blunt (n.) A fencer's foil.

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..

Counterstock :: Counterstock (n.) See Counterfoil.

Setfoil :: Setfoil (n.) See Septfoil.

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

Foliated :: Foliated (a.) Containing, or consisting of, foils; as, a foliated arch..

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..

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..

Stock :: Stock (n.) The part of a tally formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness. See Counterfoil..

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

Euchre :: Euchre (v. t.) To defeat or foil thoroughly in any scheme.

Foible :: Foible (n.) The half of a sword blade or foil blade nearest the point; -- opposed to forte.

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

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..

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

Baffle :: Baffle (v. t.) To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.

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