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Phonograph :: Phonograph (n.) An instrument for the mechanical registration and reproduction of audible sounds, as articulate speech, etc. It consists of a rotating cylinder or disk covered with some material easily indented, as tinfoil, wax, paraffin, etc., above which is a thin plate carrying a stylus. As the plate vibrates under the influence of a sound, the stylus makes minute indentations or undulations in the soft material, and these, when the cylinder or disk is again turned, set the plate in vibration

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..

Trifoly :: Trifoly (n.) Sweet trefoil.

Setfoil :: Setfoil (n.) See Septfoil.

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

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

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

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.

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

Polyfoil :: Polyfoil (n.) Same as Multifoil.

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..

Water Milfoil :: Water milfoil () Any plant of the genus Myriophyllum, aquatic herbs with whorled leaves, the submersed ones pinnately parted into capillary divisions..

Buck Bean :: Buck bean () A plant (Menyanthes trifoliata) which grows in moist and boggy places, having racemes of white or reddish flowers and intensely bitter leaves, sometimes used in medicine; marsh trefoil; -- called also bog bean..

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..

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

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

Five-leaf :: Five-leaf (n.) Cinquefoil; five-finger.

Trefle :: Trefle (n.) A species of time; -- so called from its resemblance in form to a trefoil.

Foiled :: Foiled (imp. & p. p.) of Foi.

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