Definition of foil

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

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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..
Balk :: Balk (v. t.) To disappoint; to frustrate; to foil; to baffle; to /hwart; as, to balk expectation..
Solubility :: Solubility (n.) The tendency to separate readily into parts by spurious articulations, as the pods of tick trefoil..
Five-leaf :: Five-leaf (n.) Cinquefoil; five-finger.
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..
Trefle :: Trefle (n.) A species of time; -- so called from its resemblance in form to a trefoil.
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..
Trefoiled :: Trefoiled (a.) Same as Trefle.
Foible :: Foible (n.) The half of a sword blade or foil blade nearest the point; -- opposed to forte.
Tinsel :: Tinsel (n.) A shining material used for ornamental purposes; especially, a very thin, gauzelike cloth with much gold or silver woven into it; also, very thin metal overlaid with a thin coating of gold or silver, brass foil, or the like..
Bottone :: Bottone (a.) Having a bud or button, or a kind of trefoil, at the end; furnished with knobs or buttons..
Perdifoil :: Perdifoil (n.) A deciduous plant; -- opposed to evergreen.
Point :: Point (n.) A movement executed with the saber or foil; as, tierce point..
Baffle :: Baffle (v. t.) To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.
Foil :: Foil (n.) A leaf or very thin sheet of metal; as, brass foil; tin foil; gold foil..
Beguile :: Beguile (v. t.) To elude, or evade by craft; to foil..
Club :: Club (n.) Any card of the suit of cards having a figure like the trefoil or clover leaf. (pl.) The suit of cards having such figure.
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..
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..
Trefoil :: Trefoil (n.) An ornamental foliation consisting of three divisions, or foils..
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