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

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

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

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..

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

Foil :: Foil (n.) The space between the cusps in Gothic architecture; a rounded or leaflike ornament, in windows, niches, etc. A group of foils is called trefoil, quatrefoil, quinquefoil, etc., according to the number of arcs of which it is composed..

Foil :: Foil (n.) A thin coat of tin, with quicksilver, laid on the back of a looking-glass, to cause reflection..

Stock :: Stock (n.) The part of a tally formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness. See Counterfoil..

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

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

Five-leaf :: Five-leaf (n.) Cinquefoil; five-finger.

Foilable :: Foilable (a.) Capable of being foiled.

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

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.

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