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Quicksilvered :: Quicksilvered (a.) Overlaid with quicksilver, or with an amalgam of quicksilver and tinfoil..

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

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

Foil :: Foil (n.) A leaf or very thin sheet of metal; as, brass foil; tin foil; gold foil..

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

Foliation :: Foliation (n.) The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses..

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

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

Foinery :: Foinery (n.) Thrusting with the foil; fencing with the point, as distinguished from broadsword play..

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

Foil :: Foil (n.) The track or trail of an animal.

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

Cinquefoil :: Cinquefoil (n.) The name of several different species of the genus Potentilla; -- also called five-finger, because of the resemblance of its leaves to the fingers of the hand..

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

Trefle :: Trefle (a.) Having a three-lobed extremity or extremities, as a cross; also, more rarely, ornamented with trefoils projecting from the edges, as a bearing..

Trifolium :: Trifolium (n.) A genus of leguminous herbs with densely spiked flowers and usually trifoliate leaves; trefoil. There are many species, all of which are called clover. See Clover..

Arquebusade :: Arquebusade (n.) A distilled water from a variety of aromatic plants, as rosemary, millefoil, etc.; -- originally used as a vulnerary in gunshot wounds..

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..

Foil :: Foil (v. t.) To blunt; to dull; to spoil; as, to foil the scent in chase..

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

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