Definition of foil

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Foil (n.) Anything that serves by contrast of color or quality to adorn or set off another thing to advantage.

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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..
Multifoil :: Multifoil (a.) Having more than five divisions or foils.
Foiler :: Foiler (n.) One who foils or frustrates.
Foiling :: Foiling (n.) The track of game (as deer) in the grass.
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..
Tinning :: Tinning (n.) The act, art, or process of covering or coating anything with melted tin, or with tin foil, as kitchen utensils, locks, and the like..
Tin :: Tin (v. t.) To cover with tin or tinned iron, or to overlay with tin foil..
Foible :: Foible (n.) The half of a sword blade or foil blade nearest the point; -- opposed to forte.
Trefoiled :: Trefoiled (a.) Same as Trefle.
Tin :: Tin (n.) An elementary substance found as an oxide in the mineral cassiterite, and reduced as a soft white crystalline metal, malleable at ordinary temperatures, but brittle when heated. It is not easily oxidized in the air, and is used chiefly to coat iron to protect it from rusting, in the form of tin foil with mercury to form the reflective surface of mirrors, and in solder, bronze, speculum metal, and other alloys. Its compounds are designated as stannous, or stannic. Symbol Sn (Stannum). At
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..
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..
Solubility :: Solubility (n.) The tendency to separate readily into parts by spurious articulations, as the pods of tick trefoil..
Folier :: Folier (n.) Goldsmith's foil.
Water Trefoil :: Water trefoil () The buck bean.
Foliation :: Foliation (n.) The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses..
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..
Foiling :: Foiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Foi.
Beguile :: Beguile (v. t.) To elude, or evade by craft; to foil..
Septfoil :: Septfoil (n.) An ornamental foliation having seven lobes. Cf. Cinquefoil, Quarterfoil, and Trefoil..
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