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Sainfoin :: Sainfoin (n.) A kind of tick trefoil (Desmodium Canadense).

Setfoil :: Setfoil (n.) See Septfoil.

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..

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

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..

Coat :: Coat (v. t.) To cover with a layer of any substance; as, to coat a jar with tin foil; to coat a ceiling..

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

Multifoil :: Multifoil (n.) An ornamental foliation consisting of more than five divisions or foils.

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..

Foiling :: Foiling (n.) The track of game (as deer) in the grass.

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

Quatrefoil :: Quatrefoil (n.) Same as Quarterfoil.

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

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

Feather-foil :: Feather-foil (n.) An aquatic plant (Hottonia palustris), having finely divided leaves..

Trefoil :: Trefoil (n.) An ornamental foliation consisting of three divisions, or foils..

Folier :: Folier (n.) Goldsmith's foil.

Perdifoil :: Perdifoil (n.) A deciduous plant; -- opposed to evergreen.

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

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..

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