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

Perdifoil :: Perdifoil (n.) A deciduous plant; -- opposed to evergreen.

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

Foible :: Foible (n.) The half of a sword blade or foil blade nearest the point; -- opposed to forte.

Foil :: Foil (v. t.) To render (an effort or attempt) vain or nugatory; to baffle; to outwit; to balk; to frustrate; to defeat.

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..

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

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

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

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..

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

Fencer :: Fencer (n.) One who fences; one who teaches or practices the art of fencing with sword or foil.

Trefoil :: Trefoil (n.) A charge representing the clover leaf.

Bean Trefoil :: Bean trefoil () A leguminous shrub of southern Europe, with trifoliate leaves (Anagyris foetida)..

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

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

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

Counterfoil :: Counterfoil (n.) That part of a tally, formerly in the exchequer, which was kept by an officer in that court, the other, called the stock, being delivered to the person who had lent the king money on the account; -- called also counterstock..

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

Setfoil :: Setfoil (n.) See Septfoil.

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