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

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

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

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..

Waster :: Waster (v. t.) A kind of cudgel; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a foil..

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

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..

Bottone :: Bottone (a.) Having a bud or button, or a kind of trefoil, at the end; furnished with knobs or buttons..

Quarterfoil :: Quarterfoil (n.) An ornamental foliation having four lobes, or foils..

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

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..

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

Trefoiled :: Trefoiled (a.) Same as Trefle.

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

Foiling :: Foiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Foi.

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..

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

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

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

Foliation :: Foliation (n.) The enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the ornaments. See Tracery..

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