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Counterstock :: Counterstock (n.) See Counterfoil.

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..

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..

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

Multifoil :: Multifoil (a.) Having more than five divisions or foils.

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

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

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..

Water Trefoil :: Water trefoil () The buck bean.

Foliature :: Foliature (n.) The state of being beaten into foil.

Trifoly :: Trifoly (n.) Sweet trefoil.

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

Solubility :: Solubility (n.) The tendency to separate readily into parts by spurious articulations, as the pods of tick trefoil..

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

Foiler :: Foiler (n.) One who foils or frustrates.

Setfoil :: Setfoil (n.) See Septfoil.

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..

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

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

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